E798 -- De numeris amicibilibus
(On amicable numbers)
Summary:
This paper continues much earlier work on amicable numbers, including Euler's comments on the existence and properties of odd perfect numbers (section 8). This manuscript is unfinished; sections and tables are missing.
According to C. G. J. Jacobi, it was read to
the Berlin Academy on February 23, 1747.
Publication:
-
Originally published in Commentationes arithmeticae 2, 1849, pp. 627-636
-
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 5, pp. 353 - 365
- According to Jacobi, the manuscript is found in the Archive of the Berlin
Academy.
- Reprinted in Opera postuma 1, 1862, pp. 85-100 [E798a]
Documents Available:
Return to the Euler Archive