Fast Prime Number Generation in Clojure

Question

I\'ve been working on solving Project Euler problems in Clojure to get better, and I\'ve already run into prime number generation a couple of times. My problem is that it is

Answer 1

See the last example here: http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/lazy-seq

;; An example combining lazy sequences with higher order functions
;; Generate prime numbers using Eratosthenes Sieve
;; See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes
;; Note that the starting set of sieved numbers should be
;; the set of integers starting with 2 i.e., (iterate inc 2) 
(defn sieve [s]
  (cons (first s)
        (lazy-seq (sieve (filter #(not= 0 (mod % (first s)))
                                 (rest s))))))

user=> (take 20 (sieve (iterate inc 2)))
(2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71)