Prime Decomposition of 9th Fermat Number/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Prime Decomposition of 9th Fermat Number
David Wells reports in his Curious and Interesting Numbers, 2nd ed. of $1997$ that this factorisation was accomplished by Arjen Klaas Lenstra and Mark Steven Manasse in $1990$.
Sources
- Jul. 1993: A.K. Lenstra, H.W. Lenstra, Jr., M.S. Manasse and J.M. Pollard: The Factorization of the Ninth Fermat Number (Math. Comp. Vol. 61, no. 203: pp. 319 – 349) www.jstor.org/stable/2152957
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $2^{2^9} + 1 = 2^{512} + 1$