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Back to . . . Archimedes Home Page Drexel University MCS Home Page ITALY Issued May 2, 1983 Scott Catalog Number 1559 One of a set of two in the 1983 Europa series The image of Archimedes represented on the stamp is from a bust in the National Museum of Naples, Italy. However, the bust actually is one of Archidamos III, a third-century BC king of Sparta. Also depicted is an Archimedes screw. As ...

Archimedes' Approximation of Pi One of the major contributions Archimedes made to mathematics was his method for approximating the value of pi. It had long been recognized that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was constant, and a number of approximations had been given up to that point in time by the Babylonians, Egyptians, and even the Chinese. There are some authors ...