27 (twenty-seven) is the natural number following
26 and preceding
28.
Mathematics
Including the null-motif, there are 27 distinct
hypergraph motifs.

There are exactly
''twenty-seven straight lines'' on a smooth
cubic surface
In mathematics, a cubic surface is a surface in 3-dimensional space defined by one polynomial equation of degree 3. Cubic surfaces are fundamental examples in algebraic geometry. The theory is simplified by working in projective space rather than ...
, which give a basis of the
fundamental representation of
Lie algebra
In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an operation called the Lie bracket, an alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow \mathfrak g, that satisfies the Jacobi ident ...
.
The unique simple formally real
Jordan algebra, the exceptional Jordan algebra of self-adjoint
3 by 3 matrices of
quaternion
In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers. Quaternions were first described by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. The algebra of quater ...
s, is 27-dimensional; its
automorphism group
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is the 52-dimensional
exceptional Lie algebra
There are twenty-seven
sporadic groups, if the
''non-strict'' group of Lie type (with an
irreducible representation
In mathematics, specifically in the representation theory of groups and algebras, an irreducible representation (\rho, V) or irrep of an algebraic structure A is a nonzero representation that has no proper nontrivial subrepresentation (\rho, _W, ...
that is twice that of
in 104 dimensions) is included.
In
Robin's theorem for the
Riemann hypothesis
In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part . Many consider it to be the most important unsolved problem in pure ...
, twenty-seven integers fail to hold
for values
where
is the
Euler–Mascheroni constant
Euler's constant (sometimes called the Euler–Mascheroni constant) is a mathematical constant, usually denoted by the lowercase Greek letter gamma (), defined as the limiting difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarith ...
; this hypothesis is true
if and only if
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this inequality holds for every larger
The
Clebsch surface has 27
exceptional lines can be defined over the real numbers.
It is possible to arrange 27 vertices and connect them with edges to create the
Holt graph.
27 is 3
3, and therefore, it is the second
tetration
In mathematics, tetration (or hyper-4) is an operation (mathematics), operation based on iterated, or repeated, exponentiation. There is no standard mathematical notation, notation for tetration, though Knuth's up arrow notation \uparrow \upa ...
of 3 (
23).
In other fields
*The
27 club
The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, often expanded by artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a " statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been r ...
refers to the age when many popular music figures died. It connects the age 27 with connotations of an early end.
See also
*
72 (number) – 27 reversed
Notes
References
Further reading
Wells, D. ''
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
''The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers'' is a reference book for recreational mathematics and elementary number theory written by David Wells. The first edition was published in paperback by Penguin Books in 1986 in the UK, a ...
'' London: Penguin Group. (1987), p. 106.
External links
Prime Curios! 27from the
Prime Pages
The PrimePages is a website about prime number
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a Product (mathematics), product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is ...
Mystery of the number 27- Large collection of 27 related trivia and facts.
The 27 Project- collection of sightings of 27 in movies, TV, culture and art
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