Mathematical vanity plates

DOI10.1007/S00283-010-9170-7MaRDI QIDQ536603zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald E. Knuth

Publication date 19 May 2011

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-010-9170-7

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08)

Review text

In this charming article Donald E. Knuth looks at automotive license plates and their relationship to mathematics. Some simply state ``Do Math or ``Math Sci. Others display large enough numbers which the author finds remarkable in a mathematical sense. He concludes with ``one of the main unresolved problems: ``determine the integers of 5 to 8 digits that are most `interesting' in some reasonably mathematical sense.

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