Perfect, Amicable and Sociable Numbers
โ Scribed by Yan S.Y.
- Publisher
- World Scientific
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 357
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This volume is about perfect, amicable and social numbers, with an emphasis on amicable numbers, from both a mathematical and particularly a computational point of view. It introduces the basic concepts and results of perfect, amicable and sociable numbers and reviews the history of the search for these numbers. It examines various methods, both numerical and algebraic, of generating these numbers, and also includes a set of important and interesting open problems in the area. The book is self-contained, and accessible to researchers, students and even amateurs in mathematics and computing science. The only prerequisites are some familiarity with high-school algebra and basic computing techniques
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
<span>This book contains a detailed presentation on the theory of two classes of special numbers, perfect numbers, and amicable numbers, as well as some of their generalizations. It also gives a large list of their properties, facts and theorems with full proofs. Perfect and amicable numbers, as wel
<span>In this book, we first review the history and current situation of the perfect number problem, including the origin story of the Mersenne primes, and then consider the history and current situation of the Fibonacci sequence. Both topics include results from our own research. In the later secti
<span>In this book, we first review the history and current situation of the perfect number problem, including the origin story of the Mersenne primes, and then consider the history and current situation of the Fibonacci sequence. Both topics include results from our own research. In the later secti