ABSTRACT

Everything about the natural numbers is there. All the relationships and interrelationships among them are inherent in the ordered unit-by-unit sequence that begins with zero and continues to infinity. The simple patterns of the surface are easy for anyone to guess but often difficult or even impossible to establish by proof. Subtler, more complicated patterns lie so deep that only the rarest minds glimpse them. Yet all are implicit when we begin 0, 1, 2, 3,.…