59 (fifty-nine) is the natural number following 58 and preceding 60.
[edit] In mathematics
Fifty-nine is the 17th smallest prime number. The next is sixty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime. 59 is an irregular prime, a safe prime and the 14th supersingular prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. Since 15! + 1 is divisible by 59 but 59 is not one more than a multiple of 15, 59 is a Pillai prime.
It is also a highly cototient number.
There are 59 stellations of the icosahedron.[1]
59 is one of the factors that divides the smallest composite Euclid number.
In this case 59 divides the Euclid number 13#+1=2*3*5*7*11*13+1=59*509
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[edit] Astronomy
[edit] In religion
- And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures-- none knows them but He; and He knows what is in the land and the sea, and there falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything green nor dry but (it is all) in a clear book. (Al-An'am Surah, 59)
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Fifty-nine is:
- The number corresponding to the last minute in a given hour, and the last second in a given minute
- The designation of Interstate 59, a freeway that runs from Louisiana to Georgia
- The designation of US-59, a highway between Minnesota and Texas
- Approximately the number of days in two lunar months
- The Queensboro Bridge in New York City is also known as the 59th Street Bridge
- Central Park South is on 59th Street in New York CIty
- Daniel Defoe wrote his first novel, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe at age 59
- Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross at age 59
- The number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar
- Art Project 59's '59 Seconds Video Festival'[2] at 59 Franklin Street, showed 59 videos to 59 different audiences, each 59 seconds long and incorporating the number 59
- Five Nine, an amateur radio magazine published in Japan
- The number of the French department Nord
- In the UK, the bingo nickname for 59 is 'The Brighton Line', after the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway
- John Swartzwelder is popularly known for writing "59" episodes of The Simpsons cartoon series, which is the most for any writer on the show
[edit] Historical years
59 A.D., 59 B.C., 1959, 2059, etc.
- ^ H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather, and J. F. Petrie. The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra.
- ^ 59 Seconds Video Festival