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Who is the ancient greek mathematican that estimated the most accurate calculation of pi of his times?
Archimedes
How did pythagoras's discovery impact the ancient times?
people could now do geometry a lot easier, faster, and it made a lot more sense.
Who was Gauss?
Gauss is ranked along with Archimedes and Newton as one of the three greatest mathematicians of all times.
How do you find the volume of an object?
Length times Width times Height. Archimedes used a "bathtub", and submerged the object to see what volume of water was displaced.
Who discovered pi in maths?
Historically, Ancient Egyptians are the first who introduced a reasonably accurate value for the ratio of the circle area and its square radius. They used an approximate value of 3.1605 for pi The ancient Babylonians generally calculated the area of a circle by taking 3 times the square of its radius (=3), but one Old Babylonian tablet (from ca. 1900-1680 BD) indicates a value of 3.125 for pi. The first theoretical calculation of a value of pi was that of Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BD), one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the ancient world. Archimedes worked out that 223/71 < pi < 22/7 The Greek letter π (pi) was adopted for the number from the Greek word for perimeter "περίμετρος", first by William Jones in 1707, and later popularized by Leonhard Euler in 1737. The constant is occasionally also referred to as the circular constant or Archimedes' constant.
