Amicable numbers were known to the Pythagoreans, who credited them with many mystical properties.

Amicable letters, sumptuous gifts, and letters asking for sumptuous gifts were exchanged.

* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.

* Amicable numbers are featured briefly in the novel The Stranger House by Reginald Hill.

The seven-storey building became utilised by the Halifax and Chelsea building societies, the AGF and Scottish Amicable insurance companies, and the German consulate.

Amicable numbers are two different numbers so related that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number.

Prior to his election to the UK Parliament in 1997, Swinney was employed as Strategic Planning Principal with Scottish Amicable and was a business and economic development consultant for five years.

* Amicable dispute resolution offers a framework for the settlement of disputes with the assistance of a neutral.

Particularly notable examples included Freeth's Coffee House, one of the most celebrated meeting places of Georgian England ; Ketley's Building Society, the world's first building society, founded at the Golden Cross in Snow Hill in 1775 ; the Birmingham Book Club, whose radical politics saw it nicknamed the " Jacobin Club ", and which alongside other debating societies such as the Birmingham Free Debating Society and the Amicable Debating Society played a prominent role in the growing expression of popular political consciousness within the town ; and the more conservative Birmingham Bean Club, a dining club uniting leading loyalist figures in the town with prominent landowners from the surrounding counties, which played a prominent role in the emergence of a distinct " Birmingham interest " in regional politics from 1774.

During the reign of Henry VIII, Lavenham was the scene of serious resistance to Wolsey ’ s ‘ Amicable Grant ’, a tax being raised in England to pay for war with France.

Elgin has held a number of business appointments, including as President of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society ( 1975 – 1994 ), and Chairman of the National Savings Committee for Scotland.

Charles Cotesworth Beaman, Sr. ( May 7, 1840 – December 15, 1900 ) was an American lawyer who wrote The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement ( 1871 ).

He was architect and surveyor to the Amicable Society, and to the West of England Fire and Life Insurance Office.

# REDIRECT Amicable numbers # Thâbit ibn Kurrah rule.

# REDIRECT Amicable numbers # Euler's rule.

For something, clearly, has gone very, very seriously wrong in Soviet-Chinese relations, which were never easy, and have now deteriorated.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

As a result, distribution costs were cut, customer relations improved.

With the exception of treaty-making, foreign relations were historically concerned for the most part with conditions of short or at least measurable duration.

Whereas persons of eighth grade education or less were more apt to avoid or be shocked by nudity, those educated beyond the eighth grade increasingly welcomed and approved nudity in sexual relations.

Angola-Vietnam relations were established in August 1971, four years before Angola gained its independence, when future President of Angola Agostinho Neto visited Vietnam.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

Ahmed III cultivated good relations with France, doubtless in view of Russia's menacing attitude-in fact, both his wives were Frenchwomen.

The agreement proved immensely successful, and relations with the Avars were almost uninterruptedly friendly during the lifetime of the Lombard Kingdom.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

Doherty suggests that the personal relations of the two kings were strained by constant arguments, though this in not confirmed by historical sources.

Painful relations between father and son, quite apart from the prior personal antipathies, were therefore inevitable.

His relations with Athens were already strained when he returned to Babylon in 324 BC ; after his death, Athens and Sparta led several Greek states to war with Macedon and lost.

His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost those of a son ( Yer.

In the agreement, the relations between the British Indian and Afghan governments, as previously arranged, were confirmed ; and an understanding was reached upon the important and difficult subject of the border line of Afghanistan on the east, towards India.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

Regarding institutional reforms, the party was a long-time supporter of presidentialism and a plurality voting system, and came to support also federalism and to fully accept the alliance with Lega Nord, although the relations with that party were tense at times, especially about issues regarding national unity.

The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.

Bilateral relations have developed steadily since diplomatic ties were established in mid-1994.

Frequent high-level consultations and joint military exercises, meant to discourage potential dissidents and to protect young " revolutions " in each country, were fairly regular features of Ghana-Burkina relations.

Diplomatic relations between Burkina Faso and the Soviet Union were established for the first time on February 18, 1967.

Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.

Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, the series dealt comically with a number of medieval issues in Britain – witchcraft, Royal succession, European relations, the Crusades and the conflict between the Church and the Crown.

Tacitus ' statement that they were " German in their way of life and types of dwelling " implies a sedentary bias, but their close relations with the Sarmatians, who were nomadic, may indicate a more nomadic lifestyle, as does the wide geographical range of their attested inhabitation.

Proper follow-through requires training your own sales organization, and your distributor organizations, not only in the techniques but also in good customer relations.

Unwholesome family relations, broken homes, and undesirable community influences may also be contributing factors.

Our leadership in a wide economic boycott of South Africa would be not only in accord, it seems, with the moral conscience of America, not to be denied because we also as a people have widespread injustice in the relations of the races in our own country, but also in accord with our law, U.S. Code Title 19, Section 1307, which forbids the importation of goods made by forced or convict labor.

Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.

Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

Azerbaijan also maintains good relations with the European Union, in the framework of its Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy ( See Azerbaijan and the European Union ).

Maxwell's relations show that various other quantities also vanish.

Afonso also sent ambassadors to European kingdoms outside the Iberian Peninsula and began amicable commercial relations with most of them.

His motto, " All is well since all grows better ", served not only as a good rationalization of his successful business career but also in his view of international relations.

There is also a long tradition of economic relations between Germany and Bosnia.

In March, the two countries also celebrated the 35th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also known as Itamaraty, is the government department responsible for advising the President and conducting Brazil's foreign relations with other countries and international bodies.

Aside from relations with other ASEAN states, Brunei also has extensive relations with the Islamic and Arab world.

Binary relations are also heavily used in computer science.

Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.

It also recommended that the governors-general, the representatives of the King who acted for the Crown as de facto head of state in each dominion, should no longer also serve automatically as the representative of the British government in diplomatic relations between the countries.

The Constitution established: the security of the community, religious freedoms, the role of Medina as a haram or sacred place ( barring all violence and weapons ), the security of women, stable tribal relations within Medina, a tax system for supporting the community in time of conflict, parameters for exogenous political alliances, a system for granting protection of individuals, a judicial system for resolving disputes, and also regulated the paying of Blood money ( the payment between families or tribes for the slaying of an individual in lieu of lex talionis ).

Aside from the role of governments and the church, the history of copyright law is in essential ways also connected to the rise of capitalism and the attendant extension of commodity relations to the realm of creative human activities, such as literary and artistic production.