A History of Pi- The Greeks (500 B.C.E.- 200 C.E.)

The Greeks stopped asking "How much?" and started to ask "How Come? for the first time. Anaxagoras was the first one to try to find a relationship between a circle and a square. Antiphon and Bryson attempted to find the area of a circle using a new idea. The idea was that if you take a hexagon and doubled the sides, if you kept going, you would get a circle. Antiphon first estimated the area by