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Aliquot Sum
In number theory, the aliquot sum ''s''(''n'') of a positive integer ''n'' is the sum of all proper divisors of ''n'', that is, all divisors of ''n'' other than ''n'' itself. That is, :s(n)=\sum\nolimits_d. It can be used to characterize the prime numbers, perfect numbers, "sociable numbers", deficient numbers, abundant numbers, and untouchable numbers, and to define the aliquot sequence of a number. Examples For example, the proper divisors of 12 (that is, the positive divisors of 12 that are not equal to 12) are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, so the aliquot sum of 12 is 16 i.e. (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6). The values of ''s''(''n'') for ''n'' = 1, 2, 3, ... are: :0, 1, 1, 3, 1, 6, 1, 7, 4, 8, 1, 16, 1, 10, 9, 15, 1, 21, 1, 22, 11, 14, 1, 36, 6, 16, 13, 28, 1, 42, 1, 31, 15, 20, 13, 55, 1, 22, 17, 50, 1, 54, 1, 40, 33, 26, 1, 76, 8, 43, ... Characterization of classes of numbers The aliquot sum function can be used to characterize several notable classes of numbers: *1 is the only number whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number Theory
Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory is the queen of mathematics."German original: "Die Mathematik ist die Königin der Wissenschaften, und die Arithmetik ist die Königin der Mathematik." Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects made out of integers (for example, rational numbers) or defined as generalizations of the integers (for example, algebraic integers). Integers can be considered either in themselves or as solutions to equations (Diophantine geometry). Questions in number theory are often best understood through the study of Complex analysis, analytical objects (for example, the Riemann zeta function) that encode properties of the integers, primes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almost Perfect Number
In mathematics, an almost perfect number (sometimes also called slightly defective or least deficient number) is a natural number ''n'' such that the sum of all divisors of ''n'' (the sum-of-divisors function ''σ''(''n'')) is equal to 2''n'' − 1, the sum of all proper divisors of ''n'', ''s''(''n'') = ''σ''(''n'') − ''n'', then being equal to ''n'' − 1. The only known almost perfect numbers are powers of 2 with non-negative exponents . Therefore the only known odd almost perfect number is 20 = 1, and the only known even almost perfect numbers are those of the form 2''k'' for some positive number ''k''; however, it has not been shown that all almost perfect numbers are of this form. It is known that an odd almost perfect number greater than 1 would have at least six prime factors. If ''m'' is an odd almost perfect number then is a Descartes number. Moreover if ''a'' and ''b'' are positive odd integers such that b+3 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arithmetic Dynamics
Arithmetic dynamics is a field that amalgamates two areas of mathematics, dynamical systems and number theory. Classically, discrete dynamics refers to the study of the iteration of self-maps of the complex plane or real line. Arithmetic dynamics is the study of the number-theoretic properties of integer, rational, -adic, and/or algebraic points under repeated application of a polynomial or rational function. A fundamental goal is to describe arithmetic properties in terms of underlying geometric structures. ''Global arithmetic dynamics'' is the study of analogues of classical diophantine geometry in the setting of discrete dynamical systems, while ''local arithmetic dynamics'', also called p-adic or nonarchimedean dynamics, is an analogue of classical dynamics in which one replaces the complex numbers by a -adic field such as or and studies chaotic behavior and the Fatou and Julia sets. The following table describes a rough correspondence between Diophantine equations, espec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Of Auberive
William of Auberive (french: Guillaume d'Auberive) was a Cistercian monk and numerologist who served as the abbot of from 1165 until 1186.Uta-Renate Blumenthal, "Cardinal Albinus of Albano and the ''Digesta pauperis scolaris Albini'': Ms. Ottob. lat. 3057", ''Archivum Historiae Pontificiae'' 20 (1982): 7–49 (at p. 37, n. 124). Two of William's treatises—''De sacramentis numerorum a ternario usque ad duodenarium'' and ''Regule arithmetice''—and three of his letters have been published. Robert Earl Kaske, Arthur Groos and Michael W. Twomey, ''Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation'' (University of Toronto Press, 1988), p. 171. He belonged to a group of Cistercians whose work was an expansion on the work of Hugh of Saint-Victor allegorizing numbers in the Bible. His ''De sacramentis'' on the numbers three (3) through twelve (12) is a direct continuation of the ''Analytica numerorum'' of Odo of Morimond on the first three natural numbers. It was itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divisor Function
In mathematics, and specifically in number theory, a divisor function is an arithmetic function related to the divisors of an integer. When referred to as ''the'' divisor function, it counts the ''number of divisors of an integer'' (including 1 and the number itself). It appears in a number of remarkable identities, including relationships on the Riemann zeta function and the Eisenstein series of modular forms. Divisor functions were studied by Ramanujan, who gave a number of important Modular arithmetic, congruences and identity (mathematics), identities; these are treated separately in the article Ramanujan's sum. A related function is the divisor summatory function, which, as the name implies, is a sum over the divisor function. Definition The sum of positive divisors function σ''z''(''n''), for a real or complex number ''z'', is defined as the summation, sum of the ''z''th Exponentiation, powers of the positive divisors of ''n''. It can be expressed in Summation#Capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociable Numbers
In mathematics, sociable numbers are numbers whose aliquot sums form a periodic sequence. They are generalizations of the concepts of amicable numbers and perfect numbers. The first two sociable sequences, or sociable chains, were discovered and named by the Belgian mathematician Paul Poulet in 1918. In a sociable sequence, each number is the sum of the proper divisors of the preceding number, i.e., the sum excludes the preceding number itself. For the sequence to be sociable, the sequence must be cyclic and return to its starting point. The period of the sequence, or order of the set of sociable numbers, is the number of numbers in this cycle. If the period of the sequence is 1, the number is a sociable number of order 1, or a perfect number—for example, the proper divisors of 6 are 1, 2, and 3, whose sum is again 6. A pair of amicable numbers is a set of sociable numbers of order 2. There are no known sociable numbers of order 3, and searches for them have been made up to 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periodic Sequence
In mathematics, a periodic sequence (sometimes called a cycle) is a sequence for which the same terms are repeated over and over: :''a''1, ''a''2, ..., ''a''''p'', ''a''1, ''a''2, ..., ''a''''p'', ''a''1, ''a''2, ..., ''a''''p'', ... The number ''p'' of repeated terms is called the period (period). Definition A (purely) periodic sequence (with period ''p''), or a ''p-''periodic sequence, is a sequence ''a''1, ''a''2, ''a''3, ... satisfying :''a''''n''+''p'' = ''a''''n'' for all values of ''n''. If a sequence is regarded as a function whose domain is the set of natural numbers, then a periodic sequence is simply a special type of periodic function. The smallest ''p'' for which a periodic sequence is ''p''-periodic is called its least period or exact period. Examples Every constant function is 1-periodic. The sequence 1,2,1,2,1,2\dots is periodic with least period 2. The sequence of digits in the decimal expansion of 1/7 is periodic with period 6: :\fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iterated Function
In mathematics, an iterated function is a function (that is, a function from some set to itself) which is obtained by composing another function with itself a certain number of times. The process of repeatedly applying the same function is called iteration. In this process, starting from some initial object, the result of applying a given function is fed again in the function as input, and this process is repeated. For example on the image on the right: :with the circle‑shaped symbol of function composition. Iterated functions are objects of study in computer science, fractals, dynamical systems, mathematics and renormalization group physics. Definition The formal definition of an iterated function on a set ''X'' follows. Let be a set and be a function. Defining as the ''n''-th iterate of (a notation introduced by Hans Heinrich Bürmann and John Frederick William Herschel), where ''n'' is a non-negative integer, by: f^0 ~ \stackrel ~ \operatorname_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semiprime Number
In mathematics, a semiprime is a natural number that is the product of exactly two prime numbers. The two primes in the product may equal each other, so the semiprimes include the squares of prime numbers. Because there are infinitely many prime numbers, there are also infinitely many semiprimes. Semiprimes are also called biprimes. Examples and variations The semiprimes less than 100 are: Semiprimes that are not square numbers are called discrete, distinct, or squarefree semiprimes: The semiprimes are the case k=2 of the k-almost primes, numbers with exactly k prime factors. However some sources use "semiprime" to refer to a larger set of numbers, the numbers with at most two prime factors (including unit (1), primes, and semiprimes). These are: Formula for number of semiprimes A semiprime counting formula was discovered by E. Noel and G. Panos in 2005. Let \pi_2(n) denote the number of semiprimes less than or equal to n. Then \pi_2(n) = \sum_^ pi(n/p_k) - k + 1 /math> where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldbach's Conjecture
Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in number theory and all of mathematics. It states that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers. The conjecture has been shown to hold for all integers less than 4 × 1018, but remains unproven despite considerable effort. History On 7 June 1742, the German mathematician Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to Leonhard Euler (letter XLIII), in which he proposed the following conjecture: Goldbach was following the now-abandoned convention of considering 1 to be a prime number, so that a sum of units would indeed be a sum of primes. He then proposed a second conjecture in the margin of his letter, which implies the first: Euler replied in a letter dated 30 June 1742 and reminded Goldbach of an earlier conversation they had had (), in which Goldbach had remarked that the first of those two conjectures would follow from the statement This is in fact equivalent to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős ( hu, Erdős Pál ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered around discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved problems in the field. He championed and contributed to Ramsey theory, which studies the conditions in which order necessarily appears. Overall, his work leaned towards solving previously open problems, rather than developing or exploring new areas of mathematics. Erdős published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
