interesting numbers

Are some numbers boring?

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Proof that all numbers are interesting:

Let us assume that some numbers are dull. So that means that some numbers are interesting, and some not.

Now let us look at the smallest such 'dull' number.

The fact that there must be the smallest 'dull' number, makes this number very interesting indeed!

By using proof by contradiction, we have proved that there is no number that is 'dull'.

See a page about some famous theorems and conjectures, or about some of the famous solved problems from the history of mathematics.

Hilbert posed some 23 mathematical problems back in 1900. Some of them have been solved, but some haven't. Learn about them and try to solve them, and if you succeed, you may become very famous and very wealthy!

Learn more about Hilbert by clicking on his picture.

Of course, the most famous of all the theorems is Pythagoras' Theorem. Click on his picture to find more about him.

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