Paper, 'On a property of numbers' by James Booth
Reference number: AP/36/3
Date: 1854
Description
Booth suggests that 'a number of six places, consisting of a repetition of a period of any three figures, is divisible by the prime numbers 7, 11 and 13' and presents his mathematical proof.
Subject: Mathematics
Received 6 April 1854.
This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a property of numbers'.
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- AP/36/3
- Earliest possible date
- 1854
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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James Booth, Paper, 'On a property of numbers' by James Booth, 1854, AP/36/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_36_3/paper-on-a-property-of-numbers-by-james-booth, accessed on 15 September 2026
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Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0014
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Archived papers: volume 36, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1852-1855
1852-1855 Reference number: AP/36
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