Luigi Poletti (mathematician)

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Luigi Poletti (1864–1967) was an Italian mathematician and poet. He was born in Pontremoli, where he also died, aged 103 (103 is a prime number !, his main field of research were prime numbers). His mathematical studies have been related to the expansion of the table of prime numbers, using a variant of the Sieve of Eratosthenes that he called Neocribrum.^[1]

Notes

↑ "Luigi Poletti". La guida di Pontremoli. Lunigiana.net. 1998. Retrieved 2007-12-13. (Italian)

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Name	Poletti, Luigi
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Short description	Italian mathematician
Date of birth	1864
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Date of death	1967
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