Background On 2002 Fields And Nevanlinna Awardees An important question that often arises in number theory is whether, upondividing two prime numbers, the remainder is a perfect square. http://www.ams.org/ams/fields2002-background.html
MathSteps: Grade 5: Prime Factors: When Students Ask formulas, and number concepts in number theory rely on the ability to express anumber as a product of prime numbers. For example, a perfect number is one http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathsteps/5/b/5.primefact.ask.html
Ivars Peterson's MathTrek -Appealing Numbers numberthe sum of its three proper divisors 1, 2, and 3. The next perfect numberis 2 n + 1 1, and 3 2 x 2 2n + 1 - 1 are all prime numbers (divisible only http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_2_26_01.html
Solution For /arithmetic/consecutive.product 1. Then n(n^2 1) = k^2. But n and (n^2 - 1) are relatively prime. Therefore n^2- 1 is a perfect square, which is a contradiction. Four consecutive numbers http://rec-puzzles.org/sol.pl/arithmetic/consecutive.product
Consecutive.product product of three or more consecutive positive integers cannot be a perfect square.Solution Three consecutive numbers If a and b are relatively prime, and ab http://rec-puzzles.org/new/sol.pl/arithmetic/consecutive.product
Spermatikos Logos #3 The four corners of the board are (in no particular order) a prime number, a perfectnumber, a perfect square, and one of the numbers mentioned in clue 1. http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn7805/logos3.php
Number Theory - Wikipedia the Euclidean algorithm to compute greatest common divisors, factorization of integersinto prime numbers, investigation of perfect numbers and congruences http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory
PlanetMath: Quadratic Sieve and, the zero vector in signals a perfect square a factor base such that and for eachodd prime in , is If can be completely factored by numbers in , then it is http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/QuadraticSieve.html
Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems And Lists Contents include some historical notes, discussions about perfect numbers and different theorems, and a table of known Mersenne primes. http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml
Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math perfect numbers can be formed every time a prime of a certain typeis found. Just last November a new prime of this type was found. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57043.html
Large Prime Numbers do know, however, that all perfect numbers have a direct relationship to Mersenneprimes. The new perfect number generated with the new Mersenne prime is the http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/prime_press.html
Prime Curios!: 9 contains 3021 digits. Williams. The sum of the first 9 consecutiveprime numbers = 10 2 , a perfect square. If odd perfect numbers http://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php?short=9
Mersenne Prime Numbers This means that the quest for perfect numbers is reduced to the quest for primesof the form 2^m 1 A Mersenne prime is such a number Mp, where p is prime. http://www.resort.com/~banshee/Info/mersenne.html
Mathematics Enrichment Workshop: The Perfect Number Journey Mersenne. So the search for perfect numbers became the search for more Mersenneprimes, ie prime numbers of the form 2 n 1. But this turned out to be a very http://home.pacific.net.sg/~novelway/MEW2/lesson2.html
Factoids > Perfect Number it is divisible by a prime component greater that 10 20. Exhaustive computersearch has shown that there are no odd perfect numbers less than 10 300 . http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/p/perfect.htm
Mathematics Archives - Numbers museum. Includes information on various topics as perfect numbers, primenumbers, Pythagorean triples, pi, and Fermat's Last Theorem. http://archives.math.utk.edu/subjects/numbers.html
A Prime Of Record Size! 2^1257787-1 Slowinski noted that with the discovery of the new prime number, a new perfect addedtogether, equal 6. Mathematicians don't know how many perfect numbers exist http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/1257787.html
The Prime-perfect Numbers The primeperfect numbers. A Problem Proposal. The sequence a(n) of prime-perfectnumbers begins. 30, 60, 70, 84, 90, 105, 120, 140, . http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8033/primeperfect/primeperfect.html