An illustration of a paradox about the idoneal, or suitable, numbers
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2007-05-23 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
In this paper Euler shows that there are no additional square idoneal numbers aside from 1, 4, 9, 16, and 25.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0507352,
title = {An illustration of a paradox about the idoneal, or suitable, numbers},
author = {Leonhard Euler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0507352},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, seems to be first English translation of Latin original ``Illustratio paradoxi circa progressionem numerorum idoneorum sive congruorum'', Nova Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 15 (1806), 29-32, E725