Why Five?



  • Demuth's "Figure Five in Gold" painting is in the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art. For an expanded version of this file please click Image and Poem.

  • Numbers lead to power. Ideas like `odd' lead to problem-solving.

  • Ideas behind the puzzle Apples & Baskets test understanding of odd and even, the idea (in form on-off) enabling digital computers.

  • Number-symbols are short for words that name concepts. (The next puzzle falls between Mathematical/sequences and Computing/number-representations.)

    Example 5. (Merwyn Sommer) Find the number that should follow 24 in:

    10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24, __?

    For a detailed set of related information, please click Help Sequence? For more questions, please click Some Problems.