Prime Decomposition of 5th Fermat Number/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Prime Decomposition of 5th Fermat Number
The prime decomposition of the $5$th Fermat number was determined by Leonhard Paul Euler in $1732$.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $257$
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $641$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $257$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $641$
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fermat number (P. de Fermat, 1640)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fermat number (P. de Fermat, 1640)
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $7$: Patterns in Numbers: Gauss