Tutorial results for Eratosthenes

1. Eratosthenes of Cyrene
   Kids and Teens - People and Society - Biography - Astronomers - Eratosthenes. Biography of the mathematician, geographer and astronomer born 276 BC in Cyrene, North Africa (now Shahhat, Libya). From The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. ...
   www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk
   
   
   
2. Wikipedia - Eratosthenes
   Kids and Teens - People and Society - Biography - Astronomers - Eratosthenes. Brief article covers his life and work. Includes links for further reading. ...
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3. The Eratosthenes Project
   Kids and Teens - People and Society - Biography - Astronomers - Eratosthenes. Gives information about the techniques and computations used by this ancient mathematician to find the circumference of the earth. Includes sample sketch and reconstructed map of the world. ...
   www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu
   
   
   
4. Animation of Eratosthenes' Prime Sieve
   Science - Math - Number Theory - Prime Numbers. An interactive animation of the sieve of Eratosthenes to obtain prime numbers (JavaScript required). ...
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5. The Eratosthenes Project
   Science - Math - History - People. Gives information about the techniques and computations used by this ancient mathematician to find the circumference of the earth. Includes sample sketch and recons ...
   www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu
   
   
   
6. Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BC)
   Science - Math - History - People. Discusses this early Grecian's discoveries in finding a good approximation of the circumference of the earth, the tilt angle of our planet and a tool for finding p ...
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7. Eratosthenes
   Society - History - By Time Period - Ancient - Greece - People. Life and works of a mathematician, geographer and astronomer. ...
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8. Eratho
   Kids and Teens - People and Society - Biography - Astronomers - Eratosthenes. Brief information on Eratosthenes, including when and where he was born, as well as later historians that followed up on his work of the stars. ...
   www.pbs.org