Definition:Divisibility/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Divisibility
The concept of divisibility has been studied for over $3000$ years.
from before the time of Pythagoras of Samos, the ancient Greeks were considering questions about:
as well as many other.
Even today, some of those questions remain unanswered.
Sources
- 1994: H.E. Rose: A Course in Number Theory (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $1$ Divisibility: $1.1$ The Euclidean algorithm and unique factorization