Book:David Wells/Curious and Interesting Numbers

David Wells: The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers

Published $\text {1986}$

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

Next

Further Editions

• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.)

Cited by

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles