Last week’s article, A Brief Introduction to Prime Numbers, mentioned the “Sieve of Eratosthenes” – a procedure devised by the clever Greek philosopher Eratosthenes. As a sieve catches fish, but ...

[Darkmoonsinger’s] sister is finishing her graduate degree in mathematics, and [Darkmoonsinger] wanted to give her a gift that fit with her achievement. Naturally, building a Sieve of Eratosthenes ...

I ended up with just enough time over the weekend to pull together a quick project. I implemented the Sieve-of-Eratosthenes on an ARM chip. If you haven’t heard of the Sieve of Eratosthenes then you ...

Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott gained worldwide attention in 2013 when he solved a 271-year-old problem: the so-called Goldbach’s weak conjecture, according to which every odd number greater ...

2,300 years ago, the Greek scientific writer, poet and astronomer, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, became the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth. He also dabbled in a bit of maths, and ...