Abstract
DR. GEORGE KAVÁN was born at Prague in 1877. His parents were Francis Kaván, a musical conductor and a composer of merit, and his wife Miroslava, an ardent supporter of the civil rights of women. After studying mathematics, physics and astronomy, Kaván became in 1900 chief assistant at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech University at Prague, where he remained until his appointment in 1919 as director of the Observatory at Stará Dala. The Observatory being at that time not fully equipped with instruments, it was found possible to use part of the publication funds to cover the cost of printing the present handsome volume of tables. The calculation was started in 1917, and after the author's death in 1933 his wife, Madame Kavánová, undertook the reading and correction of the final proofs.
Factor Tables giving the Complete Decomposition into Prime Factors of all Numbers up to 256,000
By Dr. George Kaván. Pp. xii + 514. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 42s. net.
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MILNE-THOMSON, L. Primes and Factors. Nature 141, 454–455 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141454b0
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