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.
It was around 200 BC.
The Sieve of Eratosthenes filters numbers, letting the composites fall through while the primes remain.
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It was around 200 BC.
The sieve of Eratosthenes was discovered in 223 BC.
prime numbers are invented by srinivasan ramanujan, an Indian mathematician.
The Sieve of Eratosthenes filters numbers, letting the composites fall through while the primes remain.
Eratosthenes, a greek philosopher, did, hence the name.
his name isnt sieve but, i know a website all about his life. theres one on eratosthenes on wikipedia. so there, by the way, eratosthenes is the wierdest name ever!!!!!!!!!
About 276 BC Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician who is credited with a simple method of making a list of as many primes as you wish. His method is known as the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
The Sieve did not invent prime numbers. It was used to find them.
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