Discovered this article after trying to understand what Euler jump means in figure skating. Read here.
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"What is special about these numbers: 6, 28, 496 and 8128?
What is the nature of the relationship between the following pairs of “amicable,” numbers, as they are rather exotically denoted: 220 and 284, 17296 and 18416, 9 363 584 and 9 437 056?
Why are the numbers 2, 3, 5, 7 drawn from a special infinite series referred to as the “atoms of arithmetic?”
These numbers, and many other kinds besides, are the subject of what Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855) – one of the greatest Mathematicians to have ever lived – liked to call the Queen of Mathematics. An enviable position, particularly considering that many see Mathematics as the Queen of the Sciences. In specialist circles, this field is known by the more prosaic title of Number Theory."
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