Ivan Pervushin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian mathematician
Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1827
Place of Birth: Lysva, Perm Krai, Russia
Date of Death: 17-Jun-1900
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ivan Pervushin
- Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin (Russian: ???? ???????? ????????, sometimes transliterated as Pervusin or Pervouchine) (15 January 1827—17 June 1900) was a Russian clergyman and mathematician of the second half of the 19th century, known for his achievements in number theory.
- He discovered the ninth perfect number and its odd prime factor, the ninth Mersenne prime.
- Also, he proved that two Fermat numbers, the 12th and 23rd, were composite. A contemporary of Pervushin's, writer A.
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- Nosilov, wrote: "...
- this is the modest unknown worker of science ...
- All of his spacious study is filled up with the different mathematical books, ...
- here are the books of famous mathematicians: Chebyshev, Legendre, Riemann; not including all modern mathematical publications, which were sent to him by Russian and foreign scientific and mathematical societies.
- It seemed I was not in a study of the village priest, but in a study of an old mathematics professor ...
- Besides being a mathematician, he is also a statistician, a meteorologist, and a correspondent".
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