Perfect Numbers: All the digits of the first 34

Long numbers have fascinated people for centuries. Memorizing digits of pi has become something of a sport, and hundreds of computers are daily searching for ever larger prime numbers. For the first time ever, this book presents all the digits of the first 34 perfect numbers. This unique book makes a great gift for your favorite mathematician or book nerd.

Perfect numbers are those whose factors add up to the number itself. For instance, 6 is the first perfect number, since its factors (1,2,3) add up to itself (1+2+3=6). These numbers are remarkably rare and beautiful and worth celebrating – which is what led us to produce this book.

Inside, you’ll find a brief explanatory introduction, and each of the first 34 perfect numbers printed in full (yes, every single one of the thousands and thousands of digits). Each number is preceded by a short entry detailing the name of its discoverer, the date of its discovery, and the number’s digit-length.

From the back cover

“That this book exists prompts two obvious questions. First, what are perfect numbers? And second, why fill a book with them? You’ll find the answers to both of these questions inside.

“Only four perfect numbers were known in antiquity. Eight more were discovered over many centuries, and only since the advent of computers in the 1950s have perfect numbers beyond the twelfth been discovered.

“Never before have all the digits of the first 34 perfect numbers been printed and collected, making this book a unique monument to the beauty of these numbers and the achievements of the mathematicians who discovered them.”

Dimensions

• 6×9 inch paperback
• 775 pages
• Proudly printed in the USA