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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Last Theorem
Euclid discovered that perfect numbers are always the multiple of two numbers, one of which is a power of 2 and the other being the next power of 2 minus 1.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic
although there are plenty of numbers whose divisors add up to one less than the number itself, that is to say only slightly defective, there appear to be no numbers that are slightly excessive.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic
The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic
Even after Pythagoras's death a member of the Brotherhood was drowned for breaking his oath-he publicly announced the discovery of a new regular solid, the dodecahedron, constructed from twelve regular pentagons.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic
Each member of the school was forced to swear an oath never to reveal to the outside world any of their mathematical discoveries.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic
Pythagoras, the teacher, paid his student three oboli for each lesson he attended
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Last Theorem
On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanely butchered by the hands of Peter the Reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics; her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Last Theorem
Number theorists consider prime numbers to be the most important numbers of all because they are the atoms of mathematics. Prime numbers are the numerical building blocks because all other numbers can be created by multiplying combinations of the prime numbers.
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Simon Singh _ The Code Book for Young People
Figure 6 The science of secret writing and its main branches.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Last Theorem
Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
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Simon Singh _ Fermat's Last Theorem
A problem worthy of attackProves its worth by fighting back. Piet Hein
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