On a seventeenth century version of the ``fundamental theorem of arithmetic'' (Q1194115)
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On a seventeenth century version of the ``fundamental theorem of arithmetic'' (English)
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27 September 1992
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Jean Prestet (1648-1690), a student of N. Malebranche, took a Euclidean approach to number and divisibility in his 1689 publication, Nouveaux éléments de mathématiques. The author explains why the work is significant, discusses it in the context of its time and argues for an unusual awareness that unique factorization of natural numbers was not to be taken for granted.
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fundamental theorem of arithmetic
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number theory
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Jean Prestet
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factorization of natural numbers
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