Math in the Middle Institute Partnership
Abstract
While this topic of “Perfect Numbers” was completely new to me (at least to the degree at which it is discussed within this paper,) I found it very intriguing and believe there is still much information and mathematical discovery in it for me. There were many historical points of interest, and I found it difficult to whittle them down to a manageable size for the intent of this paper. Likewise, there were many facts and peculiarities I found interesting and certainly worthy of consideration. However, to maintain anything close to a reasonable length of discussion as outlined in the guidelines for writing this paper, I found these things were best left out. A few of the ideas or facts that I found interesting are listed below. Also, I found I was left with some questions or ideas of my own that I simply did not have time at this point to explore. I’ve listed those as well as a reminder to myself of things I hope to return to at a later time.