Biography:Anton Felkel

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Short description: Austrian mathematician
Engraving showing Anton Felkel

Anton Felkel (26 April 1740, Kamenz, Silesia – c. 1800, possibly in Lisbon, Portugal) was an Austrian mathematician who worked on the determination of prime numbers.

Work

In 1776 and 1777, Felkel published a table giving complete decompositions of all integers not divisible by 2, 3, and 5, from 1 to 408,000. Felkel had planned to extend his table to 10 million. A reconstruction of his table is found on the LOCOMAT site.[citation needed]

Publications

  • Tafel aller einfachen Factoren der durch 2, 3, 5 nicht theilbaren Zahlen von 1 bis 10 000 000. Vienna: 1776;
  • Wahre Beschaffenheit des Donners: Eine ganz neue Entdeckung durch einen Liebhaber der Naturkunde. Wien: v. Ghelen, 1780;
  • Neueröffnetes Geheimniss der Parallellinien enthaltend verschiedene wichtige Zusätze zur Proportion und Körperlehre von Anton Felkel; nebst einer dreyfachen vorläufigen Nachricht von den dazu dienenden neuerfundenen mechanischen Kunstgriffen etc. Wien; von Ghelenschen Buchhandlung, 1781;

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