Talk:Pietro Cataldi

Dickson as reference, etc.
I have included remarks on the discovery of the 6th Mersenne prime being a mythbuster. I am normally--and would prefer to be--logged in when editing, but an antiquated browser is part of this moment's toolset. If anybody would like to improve this article in larger ways (or actually put in reference the text by Leonard Eugene Dickson), there is easy opportunity with a good Italian Wikipedia article. I have left out that there was also a myth that there should be exactly one perfect number for each digit-length, as I don't recall it as accurate (and do not believe so) that it was not long known that there was no 5-digit perfect number from my recent reading of Dickson. If it can be worded in in an intelligible sensible way, it could also add a little 'color' to the article. Dickson makes a claim of the existence of the historically longest-running (at time of authorship=1919) mathematical academy, by the name of Academia Erigende, being a creative project of Cataldi; but not finding stuff on it (?). Anybody who might find more reference, there should be something on it in wikipedia, obviously, and even more so in the Italian version.

I will identify myself in next post here (for whatever communicative value this may have).173.15.152.77 (talk) 22:00, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Me. Made correction here of myself too (as edited in article also).Julzes (talk) 03:32, 6 April 2012 (UTC)