Korselt's Theorem/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Korselt's Theorem
Alwin Reinhold Korselt first demonstrated this result in $1899$, but did not actually identify any integers that fulfilled the criterion.
That did not happen until Robert Daniel Carmichael found that $561$ was such a number in $1910$.
It turns out that Václav Šimerka had already found the first $7$ Carmichael numbers in $1885$, but his work was not noticed at the time.