Archimedes: The Greatest Mathematician of the Ancient World

The man who discovered π (pi)

Painting of Archimedes by Domenico Fetti, c. 1620 (Wikimedia Commons — image resized by author)

Some of humanity’s most influential thinkers come from the ancient world. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and many others all belong to this fascinating and vast era of history.

Archimedes is probably a name you’re familiar with given many regard him as the greatest mathematician of…