Recently (June 2001) I became aware of an interesting website, dedicated to the discovery and reporting of appearances of the number 47 in our world. It is called, appropriately enough, the 47 Society. They post e-mail notes from the members about any trivia related to what they claim is the “quintessential random number”. Well, if [...]
Naming numbers according to some property or characteristic that they possess is a legitimate — albeit egotistic — activity of some mathematicians. (See Keith Numbers for a simple and elegant example.) Another interesting name category that I have recently learned about is called “Niven Numbers”. These are merely numbers that are divisible by the sum [...]