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Encyclopedia > Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham

The mathematician Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (Delhi 1842 - London 1928) started a military career with the East India Company's Bengal (later Royal) Engineers. During 1871-1881, he was Instructor in Mathematics at the Thomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee. Upon returning to the United Kingdom in 1881, he continued teaching at military institutes in Chatham, Dublin en Shorncliffe. He left the army in 1891. Delhi (दिल्ली or Dillī in Hindi and Bengali and دیلی in Urdu) is a term that refers to either the State of Delhi or the National Capital Territory (NCT) of the Republic of India. ... Events February 21 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ...


He spent the rest of his life studying number theory. He applied his expertise to finding factors of large numbers of the form an ± bn, such as Mersenne numbers 2p-1 and Fermat numbers 2(2^n)+1. His work is continued in the Cunningham project. Traditionally, number theory is that branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers and contains many open problems that are easily understood even by non-mathematicians. ... A factor can be: a person acting as a mercantile agent a number that is a divisor of another number in mathematics; an enzyme in biochemistry. ... In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. ... In mathematics, a Fermat number, named after Pierre de Fermat who first studied them, is a positive integer of the form where n is a nonnegative integer. ...


Sources

A.E. Western, J. London Math. Soc. 317-318 (1928)


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The mathematician Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (Delhi 1842 - London 1928) started a military career with the East India Company's Bengal (later Royal) Engineers.
His work is continued in the Cunningham project.
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