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%I #11 Jul 09 2018 23:19:50
%S 11,67,4769,67
%N The "Wild Numbers", from the novel of the same title (Version 2).
%C Apparently these are completely fictional and there is no mathematical explanation. However, see the pseudo-wild numbers in A058971, A058972, A058973, A058977, A058988, A059175. See also the Lagarias article.
%D P. Schogt, De Wilde Getallen, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 1998.
%D P. Schogt, The Wild Numbers, Four Walls Eight Windows Pub., New York, 2000.
%D D. F. Wallace, Rhetoric and the math melodrama, Science, 290 (Dec 22 2000), 2263-2267.
%D A number of other reviews of this book exist on the Web.
%H J. C. Lagarias, <a href="https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22/Ford/lagarias97.pdf">Wild and Wooley numbers</a>, Amer. Math. Monthly, 113 (No. 2, 2006), 97-108.
%H Christian Perfect, <a href="http://aperiodical.com/2013/07/integer-sequence-reviews-on-numberphile-or-vice-versa/">Integer sequence reviews on Numberphile (or vice versa)</a>, 2013.
%H P. Schogt, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6583">The Wild Number Problem: math or fiction?</a>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6583 [math.HO], 2012. - From _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jan 03 2013
%H <a href="http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/maths/schogtp.htm">Another review</a>
%Y A variant of A058883, which is the main entry for this sequence.
%K nonn
%O 1,1
%A Aaron Swartz (me(AT)aaronsw.com), Oct 20 2008
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