GU. Number Freak!

March 7, 2010 · guests, The Mathcast, toys and math products · Permalink

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Puzzler Derrick Niederman tells us about his new book, Number Freak: From 1 to 200, the hidden language of numbers revealed, full of lore, mathematical amusements and numerical tidbits! 

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  1. Sean said,

    March 9, 2010 at 12:26 am

    I don’t know if this is in the book but it should be.  It’s one of my favorite proofs:
    Theorem:  There are no uninteresting natural numbers.
    Proof:  Due to the well-ordered principle, there is a smallest number uninteresting number, n… but hey, that’s pretty interesting.

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