A058883 The "Wild Numbers", from the novel of the same title (Version 1).

11, 67, 2, 4769, 67

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 08 2001

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Apparently these are completely fictional and there is no mathematical explanation. However, see the pseudo-wild numbers in A058971, A058972, A058973, A058977, A058988, A059175. See also the Lagarias article.

References

• P. Schogt, De Wilde Getallen, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 1998.
• P. Schogt, The Wild Numbers, Four Walls Eight Windows Pub., New York, 2000.
• D. F. Wallace, Rhetoric and the math melodrama, Science, 290 (Dec 22 2000), 2263-2267.
• A number of other reviews of this book exist on the Web.

Links

• J. C. Lagarias, Wild and Wooley numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly, 113 (No. 2, 2006), 97-108.
• Christian Perfect, Integer sequence reviews on Numberphile (or vice versa), 2013.
• P. Schogt, The Wild Number Problem: math or fiction?, arXiv:1211.6583 [math.HO], 2012. - From _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jan 03 2013
• Wikipedia, Wild number
• Another review

Crossrefs

See A145833 for another version.

Extensions

Thanks to Enoch Haga for investigating these numbers (Jan 14 2001).

Offset changed to 0 by Sean A. Irvine, Sep 03 2022, because of the Wikipedia link.