You may know today, June 28, as Tau Day, a celebration of the number 2π, which some people believe to be the superior circle constant. I prefer to observe the most mathematically perfect day of the ...

A few weeks back, I began this blog with a piece about the “7 Stupid Things Believed by Bad Companies”. I must have struck a nerve, because the essay was quickly picked up – notably by uber-blogger ...

Although it recurs every year, June 28, or the 28th day of the 6th month, is special. It represents the only day of the year where both the date and the month correspond numerically to the first two ...

Perfect Number unveiled its fall 2020 ready-to-wear collection during New York Fashion Week in September, 2020.

As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with to this day. But he doesn’t feel bad: The problem that captivated him, ...

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Perfect Number, which premiered at the Busan Film Festival, is a worthy adaptation of The Devotion Of Suspect X written by popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, which should perform well ...

T. 79, Fasc. 4, As Razões do Coração: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) no 400.º Aniversário do seu Nascimento / The Reasons of the Heart: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on the 400th Anniversary of His Birth (2023 ...

Perfect Numbers Six is such a number: it is the sum of all numbers that divide it except itself. In 2,000 years 12 perfect numbers were found; now a computer has discovered five more ...

For n a positive integer, let σ(n) denote the sum of the divisors of n. The number n is said to be deficient perfect if σ(n)/n = (2x 1)/x for some x ∊ ℕ. We show that every perfect number has a ...