A Number for Your Thoughts

Table of Contents:

1. Counting. 1 
2. The Search for Prime Numbers. 10 
3. The World Record Holders. 19 
4. The Distribution of Primes. 25 
5. Prime Races, Emirps, and More. 33 
6. The Baffling Law of Benford. 43 
7. What is so Special about 6174? 53 
8. Number Patterns and Symmetries. 62 
9. Numbers Perfect, Friendly, and Weird. 71 
10. How do These Series End? 86 
11. Fermat's Legendary Last Theorem. 94 
12. Shapely Numbers and Mr. Waring. 103 
13. Magic Squares and Cubes. 117 
14. How can Anything so Simple be so Difficult? 124 
15. Nearly All Numbers are Insane. 132 
16. Cyclic Numbers and their Secret. 141 
17. Pi, a Transcendental Number. 152 
18. Most Numbers are Normal, but it's Tough to Find One. 161 
19. A Different Way of Counting; Geometric Numbers. 169 
20. Two Dimensional Numbers. 179 
21. Counting the Infinite. 189