Bergman Numbers
... there are no uninterest—
ing positive whole numbers—
“because if there were, there would—
be a smallest one, and the—
property of being the—
smallest uninteresting
number would be…be? You see?”
Thanks to Prof.
--- George Bergman
Emer. Prof. Math.
UC Berkeley
*Poetry&Mathematics—A square: the number of syllables in a line equals the number of lines.
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