The Fibonacci Numbers and the Arctic Ocean.- Representation of Real Numbers by Means of Fibonacci Numbers.- Prime Number Records.- Selling Primes.- Euler’s Famous Prime Generating Polynomial and the Class Number of Imaginary Quadratic Fields.- Gauss and the Class Number Problem.- Consecutive Powers.- 1093.- Powerless Facing Powers.- What Kind of Number Is $$ sqrt 2 ^{sqrt 2 } $$ ?.- Galimatias Arithmeticae.
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