"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"--.

• 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