Amicable Pair/Examples/1184-1210/Historical Note

Historical Note on the Amicable Pair $1184$ and $1210$

The amicable pair $1184$ and $1210$ was discovered by Nicolò Paganini in $1866$, at the age of $16$.

It is remarkable that it had until that time escaped being found, even by Leonhard Paul Euler's systematic exploration.


Sources

  • 1866-1867: B. Nicolò I. Paganini: TBD (Atti della R. Accad. Sc. Torino Vol. 2: p. 362)
  • 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $1184$
  • 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $1184$
  • 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): amicable numbers
  • 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): amicable numbers
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