After yesterday's lack of updates, Iam has a few choice words for the QM and also this question. Give me a person who connects the visuals.Answer: The connect is Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician whose contributions to science include (among others) a way to measure the circumference of earth, a sieve method to generate prime numbers and a map of the world based on then known geographic facts. Karthik, Mohan, Kr!sh, mekie, nice try, Major Shankar, Hirak, Anindya, Adi, Manix, Hasan, Rajesh and Srivats got it. Well done.
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Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes... Ptolemaic greek mathematician
Based just on the prime number I am guessing the connection is Erastosthenes (sp?).
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
eratosthenes -- measuring circumference of the earth, map of the world, sieve of eratosthenes for prime numbers
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes: the radius of the earth, the sieve for primality testing (they didn't have AKS at the time - or very own Godel prize winners) and the map :)
Eratosthenes: Eratosthenes's method for calculating the circumfrence of the earth, the famous prime number seive, and his map of the world
Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes
First image is an illustration of his method of deciphering the earth's radius/circumferene
The second is the sieve of eratosthenes, an algo for finding primes.
The last is a map of the world he cooked up from known facts.
Eratosthenes
Erathostenes
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