Book:David Wells/Curious and Interesting Numbers

Contents

 * Introduction
 * A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
 * Glossary
 * Bibliography


 * The Dictionary


 * Tables
 * The First $100$ Triangular Numbers, Squares and Cubes
 * The First $20$ Pentagonal, Hexagonal, Heptagonal and Octagonal Numbers
 * The First $40$ Fibonacci Numbers
 * The Prime Numbers less than $1000$
 * The Factorials of the Numbers $1$ to $20$
 * The Decimal Reciprocals of the Primes from $7$ to $97$
 * The Factors of the Repunits from $11$ to $R_{40}$
 * The Factors, where Composite, and the Values of the Functions $\map \phi n$, $\map d n$ and $\map \sigma n$


 * Index



Positive Integer is Divisible by Sum of Consecutive Integers iff not Power of 2
$2$:

Decimal Expansion of $\pi$
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$:

Notation for Pi
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$:

Leonhard Paul Euler
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$:

Pi: Modern Developments
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$:

Tamura-Kanada Circuit Method: Example
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$:

Pythagorean Triangle with Sides in Arithmetic Progression
$5$:

No 4 Fibonacci Numbers can be in Arithmetic Progression
$5$:

Perfect Number is Sum of Successive Odd Cubes except 6
$6$:

Historical Note on the St. Ives Problem
$7$:

Definition of Deltahedron
$8$:

Product of Two Triangular Numbers to make Square
$15$:

Triangular Number Pairs with Triangular Sum and Difference
$15$:

Palindromic Triangular Numbers
$15$:

Stronger Feit-Thompson Conjecture
$17$:

Magic Hexagon
$19$:

Semiperfect Number
$20$:

Squares Ending in 5 Occurrences of 2-Digit Pattern
$21$:

Apothecaries' Ounce
$24$:

24 is Smallest Composite Number the Product of whose Proper Divisors is Cube
$24$:

Sociable Chain: $12,496$
$28$:

Historical Note on Definition:Perfect Number: Mistake 2
$28$:

Sequence of Prime Primorial minus 1
$29$:

Greatest Integer such that all Coprime and Less are Prime
$30$:

Pascal's Rule
$35$:

Hilbert-Waring Theorem/Particular Cases/5
$37$:

46/Historical Note
$46$:

Prime between n and 9 n divided by 8
$48$:

Definition:Highly Composite Number
$60$:

Kaprekar's Process for 2-Digit Numbers
$63$:

Existence of Number to Power of Prime Minus 1 less 1 divisible by Prime Squared
$64$:

Reciprocal of 89
$89$:

Integers such that Difference with Power of 2 is always Prime
$105$:

Reciprocals of Odd Numbers adding to 1
$105$:

Triperfect Number
$120$:

Multiply Perfect Number of Order 8
$120$:

Fibonacci Numbers with no Primitive Prime Factors
$144$:

Smallest Prime Magic Square with Consecutive Primes from $3$
$144$:

Sum of 2 Squares in 2 Distinct Ways: $145$
$145$:

3-Digit Numbers forming Longest Reverse-and-Add Sequence
$187$:

Multiplicative Magic Square/Examples/Order 3/Smallest/Historical Note
$216$:

Plato's Geometrical Number
$216$:

Fermat Pseudoprime to Base 4
$217$:

Prime Decomposition of 7th Fermat Number
$257$:

Product of Sequence of Fermat Numbers plus 2
$257$:

297
$297$:

1,111,111,111
$297$:

Products of 2-Digit Pairs which Reversed reveal Same Product
$504$:

Prime Decomposition of 5th Fermat Number
$641$:

Consecutive Integers whose Product is Primorial
$714$:

Period of Reciprocal of $729$ is $81$
$729$:

Triangular Number Pairs with Triangular Sum and Difference: $T_{39}$ and $T_{44}$
$780$:

Multiple of 999 can be Split into Groups of 3 Digits which Add to 999
$999$: