Selberg sieve

English

Etymology

Developed by Atle Selberg in the 1940s.

Noun

Selberg sieve (plural Selberg sieves)

  1. (number theory) A technique for estimating the size of sifted sets of positive integers that satisfy a set of conditions expressed by congruences.
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