Paul Poulet

Paul Poulet (* 1887, † 1946) was a Belgian amateur mathematician, known for contributions to elementary number theory.

He led a 1918 ( in L' Intermédiaire of Mathématiciens ) Sociable numbers and he looked great perfection ( and multi- perfect ) and Friends numbers.

He tabulated the Fermat pseudo prime numbers in base 2 (sometimes called Poulet numbers) to 100 million (1938 ), after he had already tabulated 1925 to 50 million.

In 1925, he found 43 new multi - perfect numbers, that is numbers where the sum of the positive divisors (including the number itself ) is equal to ( perfect numbers are the special case k = 2). Among other things, he found the first two examples for k = 8

Writings

• Parfaits, Amiables et extensions, Edition Stevens, Brussels 1918
• La chasse aux nombres, Edition Stevens, Brussels 1929