jean henri lambert

The mathematician who initiated the 1770 effort to reconstruct and extend Pell's divisor table.

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  Lambert

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• Factor tables 1657-1817, with notes on the birth of Number Theory

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• Jean Henri Lambert launched a major 1770 project to reconstruct and extend Pell's table by mobilizing many calculators and mathematicians, while stressing the lack of a theory of numbers, divisors, and factorization.
• The texts produced within Lambert's project contributed importantly to the emergence of higher arithmetic around 1800 in the work of Legendre and Gauss.

• No direct concept-to-concept edges are published yet.

• factor tables

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• divisor tables

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• john pell

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• scientific network

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• number theory

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• factorization methods

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• higher arithmetic

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