Book:David Wells/Curious and Interesting Numbers/Second Edition

Contents

 * Introduction
 * Acknowledgements
 * 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 $\phi(n)$, $d(n)$ and $\sigma(n)$


 * Index

Continued Square Root of 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
$3$:

Pythagorean Triangle with Sides in Arithmetic Progression
$5$:

Fibonacci Number as Sum of Binomial Coefficients
$5$:

Number of Fibonacci Numbers with Same Number of Decimal Digits
$5$:

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

Divisibility of Elements of Pythagorean Triple by 7
$7$:

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

Definition of Deltahedron
$8$:

Relation between Squares of Fibonacci Numbers and Squares of Lucas Numbers
$11$:

Solutions of Ramanujan-Nagell Equation
$15$:

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

Integers with Prime Values of Sigma Function
$16$:

Smallest Odd Number not of form $2 a^2 + p$
$17$:

Stronger Feit-Thompson Conjecture
$17$:

Only Number Twice Sum of Digits is 18
$18$:

Semiperfect Number
$20$:

Smallest Integer not Sum of Two Ulam Numbers
$23$:

Apothecaries' Ounce
$24$:

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

Historical Note on Definition:Perfect Number: Mistake 1
$28$:

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
$30$:

Smallest Positive Integer not of form +-4 mod 9 not representable as Sum of Three Cubes
$30$:

Giuga Number
$30$:

Smallest Set of Weights for Two-Pan Balance
$31$:

Integer as Sum of 5 Non-Zero Squares
$33$:

Triplets of Products of Two Distinct Primes
$33$:

Prime Factors of 35, 36, 4734 and 4735
$35$:

Element of Pascal's Triangle is Sum of Diagonal or Column starting above it going Upwards
$35$:

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

Euler Lucky Number/Examples/41
$41$:

Subfactorial/Examples/5
$44$:

Definition:Kaprekar Triple/Sequence
$45$: