I have requested a pdf of Robin 1984 from campus scanning service. One highlight of the article that really should be mentioned is this: For $n \geq 13,$ we have $$ \sigma(n) \; < \; \; e^\gamma \; n \log \log n \; + \; \frac{ \; 0.64821364942... \; \; n \; }{\log \log n},$$ with the constant in the numerator giving equality for $n=12.$ see: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/79927/which-n-maximize-gn-frac-sigmann-log-log-n/79987#79987 That, at least, rests on effective bounds of Rosser and Schoenfeld (1962), which can be downloaded from [ROSSER][1] Well, maybe not so directly. R+S do the unconditional bound for $n/\phi(n)$ in Theorem 15, pages 71-72, formulas (3.41) and (3.42). The treatment for $\sigma(n)$ is quite similar in spirit, maybe Robin was the first to write it down. The analogue of the primorials [PRIMO][2] and $n^{1-\delta}/\phi(n)$ is the colossally abundant [CA][3] numbers and $\sigma(n)/ n^{1 + \delta}.$ Well, I am not sure where it is written down, but it is easy enough to show that the maximum value, for some $0 < \delta \leq 1, $ of $$ \frac{ n^{1-\delta}}{\phi(n)} $$ occurs when the prime factor $p$ of $n$ has exponent $$ v_p(n) = \left \lfloor \frac{p^{1-\delta}}{p-1} \right \rfloor.$$ Since, for a fixed $\delta,$ this expression is either 0 or 1 and nonincreasing in $p,$ it turns out that the optima occur at the primorials, the products of the consecutive primes from 2 to something... [1]: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.ijm/1255631807 [2]: http://oeis.org/A002110 [3]: http://oeis.org/A004490