eratosthenes in English

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( circa 275–194 bc ) , Greek scholar, geographer, and astronomer. The first systematic geographer of antiquity, he accurately calculated the circumference of the earth.

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1. In number theory, he introduced the sieve of Eratosthenes, an efficient method of identifying prime numbers.

2. The same fate has Befallen the works of Berossus and Manetho, Eratosthenes and Apollodorus

3. But clever Eratosthenes, using mathematics, was able to measure the Earth with an amazing accuracy of two percent.

4. The algorithm of distinguishing prime number is improved on the basis of Eratosthenes' sieve method and Fermat' s minor theorem.

5. As with The Cattle Problem, The Method of Mechanical Theorems was written in the form of a letter to Eratosthenes in Alexandria.

6. Eratosthenes' method to calculate the Earth's Circumference has been lost; what has been preserved is the simplified version described by Cleomedes to popularise the discovery

7. He as well as Artemidorus and others accepted a circular or ellipsoidal shape of the world and a Circumfluent ocean; Strabo alone adhered to the scientific theories of Eratosthenes.

8. Its peak lies at the depth of 690 m and it rises 2000 m above the surrounding seafloor, which is located at the depth of up to 2,700 m and is a part of the Eratosthenes Abyssal Plain.

9. ‘In Alexandrian courtrooms a defendant was permitted to speak for a certain regulated time.’ ‘In the third century BC, the famous Greek mathematician Archimedes issued a challenge to the Alexandrian mathematicians, headed by Eratosthenes.’ ‘It was a tabletop monument to Greek and Alexandrian …

10. Aristoxenus and the Auletic viewpoint 151 ‘Pythagorean’ orthodoxy 158 Thrasyllus 159 Nicomachus, ‘Timaeus Locrus’ and Boethius 160 Minor Sources 166 Superparticularity 169 Archytas 171 Eratosthenes 182 Didymus 187 Ptolemy 194 6 Going beyond Ptolemy? 217 The soft diatonic and tense chromatic semitones 217 Modality 219 Focal notes 219

11. In addition to giving area formulas and methods for multiplication, division and working with unit fractions, it also contains evidence of other mathematical knowledge, including composite and prime numbers; arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means; and simplistic understandings of both the Sieve of Eratosthenes and perfect number theory (namely, that of the number 6).