A Number For Your Thoughts: Facts And Speculations About Numbers From Euclid To The Latest Computers
by Stephen P Richards /
1982 / English / PDF
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Table of Contents:
1. Counting. 1
2. The Search for Prime Numbers. 10
3. The World Record Holders. 19
4. The Distribution of Primes. 25
5. Prime Races, Emirps, and More. 33
6. The Baffling Law of Benford. 43
7. What is so Special about 6174? 53
8. Number Patterns and Symmetries. 62
9. Numbers Perfect, Friendly, and Weird. 71
10. How do These Series End? 86
11. Fermat's Legendary Last Theorem. 94
12. Shapely Numbers and Mr. Waring. 103
13. Magic Squares and Cubes. 117
14. How can Anything so Simple be so Difficult? 124
15. Nearly All Numbers are Insane. 132
16. Cyclic Numbers and their Secret. 141
17. Pi, a Transcendental Number. 152
18. Most Numbers are Normal, but it's Tough to Find One. 161
19. A Different Way of Counting Geometric Numbers. 169
20. Two Dimensional Numbers. 179
21. Counting the Infinite. 189
