Mathematician:Paul Peter Heinrich Seelhoff
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Mathematician
German mathematician who discovered the Mersenne prime $M61$ in $1886$, independently of Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 1829
- Died: 1896
Publications
- Sept. 1885: Nova methodus numeros compositos a primis dignoscendi illorumque factores inveniendi (Amer. J. Math. Vol. 8, no. 1: pp. 39 – 44) www.jstor.org/stable/2369357
- 1886: Die Zahlen von der Form $k \cdot 2 n + 1$ (Z. Math. Phys. Vol. 31: p. 380)
- 1886: Geschichte der Factorentafeln
Also known as
Some sources report him as Petter Seelhoff, but this may be a mistake.