al-Fārisī and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (Q1332243): Difference between revisions

This paper contains an English version of nine results of al-Fārisī on elementary number theory. Kamāl al-Dīn al- Fārisī (d. cca. 1320) was a prominent Persian mathematician. His main work is the treatise `Memorandum for Friends Explaining the Proof of Amicability', a fundamental textbook of Muslim mathematics [cf. \textit{P. Rashed}, J. Hist. Arabic Sci. 6, 228-267 (1982)]. The results presented in this paper are steps in al-Fārisī's proof of the theorem of Thābit ibn Qurra about the construction of amicable numbers. The main one of them is the theorem about existence and unicity of prime decomposition of natural numbers. The paper contains many comments on al- Fārisī's results and techniques, several historical notes and a relevant bibliography.