Can Numbers Be Interesting?
There are lots of very interesting things in Mathematics. Only you need to get beyond the idea that Mathematics is not about rote leaning of methods. You will find numbers shouldn’t be numbing!
What defines and interesting number?
Are there any uninteresting numbers
Is 22333 an interesting number?
At first glance it looks interesting.
It is almost a palindrome, add a 2 to the start or drop one of the 3s and you have a number that read the same way backwards and forwards.
Is 23 an interesting number?
Is 971 an interesting number?
More about interesting numbers
Learn about numbers from minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here.
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