
Secret Lives of Numbers
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In The Secret Lives of Numbers, popular mathematician Alfred S. Posamentier provides short and engaging mini-biographies of more than 100 numbers, starting with 1 and featuring some especially interesting numbers -like 6,174, a number with most unusual properties -to provide readers with a more comprehensive picture of the lives of numbers both mathematically and socially.
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of 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 productsâ?"reversals
- Sums of consecutive integers
- Amazing power relationships
- A factorial loop
- Notes
- Epilogue
- Appendix
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