Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth’s ...
You might have heard that the Earth was earlier believed to be flat. You might have even laughed at the thought, but if you try and empathise with those who lived thousands of years ago, it would not ...
PRIME numbers may have been studied for over 2000 years, but there is always something new to learn. A method for finding primes first devised by the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in 240 BC ...
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