Mathematician:Paul Poulet

Mathematician
Belgian amateur mathematician working in number theory.

Published his investigations into sociable numbers in $1918$.

Calculated the Fermat pseudoprimes to base $2$ (now called Poulet numbers) up to $50$ million in $1926$, then up to $100$ million in $1938$.

Published $43$ new multiperfect numbers in $1925$, including the first two known octo-perfect numbers.

Nationality
Belgian

History

 * Born: 1887
 * Died: 1946

Theorems and Definitions

 * Poulet Number

Publications



 * 1918: Parfaits, amiables et extensions (Perfect and Amicable Numbers and Their Extensions)
 * 1929: La chasse aux nombres (The Hunt for Numbers)