Judy A. Holdener

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Judy Holdener is a number theorist. She is an associate professor at Kenyon College. She developed a simpler proof of the following theorem of Touchard, which states that every perfect number is of the form 2k, 12k+1, or 36k+9.

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  • J.A. Holdener. "A Theorem of Touchard and the Form of Odd Perfect Numbers," The American Mathematical Monthly, 109 (2002) pp. 661--663.
  • Jacques Touchard. "On prime numbers and perfect numbers," Scripta Mathematica, Vol. 19 (1953), pp. 35–39.

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