factor tables

Tables of integer divisors compiled, corrected, and published over the period discussed in the abstract.

• Types

  historical resource

• Aliases

  tables de diviseurs

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

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• The production and correction of divisor tables pushed mathematicians and calculators to organize themselves into a scientific network.
• John Pell was the first to encourage, around 1660, the creation of a large divisor table, and he presented it as useful for Diophantine analysis, arithmetic, and philosophy.
• 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.

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

• divisor tables

  historical resource1 shared papers
• john pell

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• jean henri lambert

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• scientific network

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• number theory

  mathematical concept1 shared papers
• factorization methods

  mathematical concept1 shared papers
• higher arithmetic

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