"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Pt. 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 300 to 1000 -- Pt. 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.
