Mathematical Terminology Which Occurs in The Story
- root
- imaginary number
- factorial
- amicable number
- prime number
- twin prime
- perfect number
- abundant number
- deficient number
- triangular number
- Ruth-Aaron pair
- Mersenne prime
- Napier's constant
- Euler's formula
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Artin's conjecture
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