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We make a number of observations on Conway surreal number theory which may be useful, for further developments, in both in mathematics and theoretical physics. In particular, we argue that the concepts of surreal numbers and matroids can be…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 J. A. Nieto

Transcendental numbers play an important role in many areas of science. This paper contains a short survey on transcendental numbers and some relations among them. New inequalities for transcendental numbers are stated in Section 2 and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Florin F. Nichita

In this paper we shall study the inverse problem relative to dynamics of the w function which is a special arithmetic function and shall get some results.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Chaohua Jia

Retroreflectors are optical devices that reverse the direction of incident beams of light. Here we present a collection of billiard type retroreflectors consisting of four objects; three of them are asymptotically perfect retroreflectors,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-05-20 Alexander Plakhov

Many mathematicians find mathematics aesthetically beautiful and even comparable to art forms such as music or painting. On the other hand, every year a great number of school students leave mathematics with total disillusionment and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Alok Shukla

Natural numbers satisfying an unusual property are mentioned by the author in [5], in which their infinitude is also proved. In this paper, we start with an arbitrary natural number which is not a multiple of 10 and non-palindromic, form…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Daniel Tsai

We present a numerical approach for computing attractive-repulsive power law equilibrium measures in arbitrary dimension. We prove new recurrence relationships for radial Jacobi polynomials on $d$-dimensional ball domains, providing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Timon S. Gutleb , José A. Carrillo , Sheehan Olver

In this short note we have given an equation based on the date 11.09.2001 and presented some magic squares. The magic squares presented are of order 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 9x9, 16x16 and 25x25. While the magic square of higher order 9x9, 16x16 and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Inder Jeet Taneja

In this paper we study two operations, Pasting and Reversing, defined from a natural way to be applied over some rings such as the ring of polynomials and the ring of linear differential operators, which is a differential ring. We obtain…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Primitivo B. Acosta-Humanez , Adriana Lorena Chuquen , Angela Mariette Rodriguez

New exceptional (i.e. non-repeating) prime number multiplets are given and formulated in terms of arithmetic progressions, along with laws governing them. Accompanying repeating prime number multiplets are pointed out. Prime number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-23 H. J. Weber

A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to twice the number itself. The existence of odd perfect numbers is a millennia-old unsolved problem. This note proposes a proof of the nonexistence of odd perfect numbers. More generally,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-03-04 N. A. Carella

Mathematics is the language of science. Fluent and productive use of mathematics requires one to understand the meaning embodied in mathematical symbols, operators, syntax, etc., which can be a difficult task. For instance, in algebraic…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-09-26 Tra Huynh , Eleanor C Sayre

We use elementary methods to establish three key recurrence relations: one for derangement numbers, a second for harmonic numbers, and a third for degenerate harmonic numbers. Our results not only contribute to the understanding of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Taekyun Kim , Dae san Kim , Jongkyum Kwon , Kyo-Shin Hwang

We discuss properties of integers in base 3/2. We also introduce many new sequences related to base 3/2. Some sequences discuss patterns related to integers in base 3/2. Other sequence are analogues of famous base-10 sequences: we discuss…

Non-stabilizerness, or magic, is a fundamental resource for quantum computation, enabling quantum algorithms to surpass classical capabilities. Despite its importance, characterizing magic remains challenging due to the intricate geometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Rafael A. Macedo , Patrick Andriolo , Santiago Zamora , Davide Poderini , Rafael Chaves

Repeatedly adding or subtracting the digital reversal to or from an integer, depending on which one is larger, can be treated as a dynamical system. On one hand, a three-digit version of this map running only two steps is the 1089…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yannis Almirantis , Wentian Li

New Mersenne conjectures. The problems of simplicity, common prime divisors and free from squares of numbers $L(n) = 2^{2n}\pm2^n\pm1$ are investigated. Wonderful formulas $gcd $ for numbers $L (n) $ and numbers repunit are proved.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Boris V. Tarasov

Magnitude is an invariant of metric spaces with origins in category theory. Using potential theoretic methods, Barcel\'o and Carbery gave an algorithm for calculating the magnitude of any odd dimensional ball in Euclidean space, and they…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Simon Willerton

The implication relationship between subsystems in Reverse Mathematics has an underlying logic, which can be used to deduce certain new Reverse Mathematics results from existing ones in a routine way. We use techniques of modal logic to…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Carl Mummert , Alaeddine Saadaoui , Sean Sovine

The number of tuples with positive integers pairwise relatively prime to each other with product at most $n$ is considered. A generalization of $\mu^{2}$ where $\mu$ is the M\"{o}bius function is used to formulate this divisor sum and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Masum Billal