Chat with our AI personalities
the person that invented the sive was actually eratosthenes of cyrene. cyrene is were he lived which is now in libya, he name the sive after himslef. he was a great mathematician, astronmer, and a excellant geograher, he also worked in a library.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene using shadows at two different places in Egypt. An amazing achievement for those times (about 200-250BC)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz developed Leibniz notation. In Leibniz notation, differentiation looks like a fraction dy/dx and integration looks like a long S, which was used in Germany at the time, to denote "sum" (as in the sum of infinitely thin rectangles used in definite integration).
The Sieve of Eratosthenes filters numbers, letting the composites fall through while the primes remain.
Eratosthenes