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Posamentier, Alfred S.,. The secret lives of numbers: numerals and their peculiarities in mathematics and beyond / Alfred S. Posamentier. — 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations (some color — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/3303439.pdf>.

Record create date: 11/12/2021

Subject: Number concept.; Numerals.; Arithmetic — Foundations.; Arithmetic — Foundations.; Number concept.; Numerals.

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"The Secret Lives of Numbers takes readers on a journey through integers, considering their numerological assignments as well as their significance beyond mathematics and in the realm of popular culture"--.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Significant Numbers and What They Mean, Represent, and Exhibit
    • The numbers from 0 to 99
    • The numbers from 100 to 200
    • The numbers from 200 to 300
    • The numbers from 300 to 1000
    • The numbers greater than 1000
    • Notes
  • 2 Special Number Characteristics
    • Perfect numbers
    • Kaprekar numbers
    • The repunit numbers (where all the digits are ones)
    • Some number peculiarities
    • Armstrong numbers
    • Happy and unhappy numbers
    • Some prime denominators
    • Some more curious numbers
    • Curious products—reversals
    • Sums of consecutive integers
    • Amazing power relationships
    • A factorial loop
    • Notes
  • Appendix: Tables
    • 1. Table of Fibonacci numbers
    • 2. Table of the prime numbers less than 10,000
    • 3. Table of the first 48 perfect numbers
    • 4. Table of Kaprekar numbers
    • The next Kaprekar numbers are 208,495, 318,682, 329,967, 351,352, 356,643, 390,313, 461,539, 466,830, 499,500, 500,500, 533,170,
    • 5. Table of Armstrong numbers
    • 6. Table of Amicable numbers
    • 7. Pythagorean triples with a pair of palindromic numbers
  • Introduction
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix

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