Ratio of 2016 to Aliquot Sum/Historical Note

From ProofWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Historical Note on Ratio of 2016 to Aliquot Sum

Leonard Eugene Dickson reports in his $1919$ work History of the Theory of Numbers, Volume I that this result was noted by Pierre de Fermat, in response to Marin Mersenne's observation that $360$ has the same property.


Sources