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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some properties of the sum of the divisors of numbers'

Read 29 May 1788

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L&P/9/95
Earliest possible date
1788
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Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edward Waring

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Edward Waring, Paper, 'Some properties of the sum of the divisors of numbers' by Edward Waring, 1788, L&P/9/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_95/paper-some-properties-of-the-sum-of-the-divisors-of-numbers-by-edward-waring, accessed on 13 October 2026

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