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The Union of the Names

Ninety-one is seven times thirteen and a triangular number, the sum of the integers one through thirteen, and reduces to ten and then one. In Jewish gematria it holds a celebrated place: it is the value of amen, aleph, mem, nun, totalling one, forty and fifty, and it is also the sum of the two great divine names, YHWH at twenty-six and Adonai at sixty-five, so that the word by which a blessing is affirmed equals the union of the written and the spoken Name. This is among the most admired coincidences in Kabbalistic arithmetic, and it is why amen is said to carry the force of both Names together.

In chemistry, ninety-one is the atomic number of protactinium, a name that means before actinium, since it decays into that element; it was identified in 1913 and formally confirmed and named between 1917 and 1918.

Ninety-one factors as 7 x 13 and carries 4 divisors in all. Summing its proper divisors gives only 21, short of the number itself, which places it among the deficient numbers in the same classical scheme.

The genuine Pythagorean number philosophy that this modern chart borrows its name from left no writings of its own: Pythagoras and his early followers taught only by mouth, and what survives of their number theory comes instead through Nicomachus of Gerasa, whose Introduction to Arithmetic of the first century CE became the standard authority for a thousand years, and through Iamblichus, who drew on Nicomachus two centuries later; neither wrote anything resembling a name-and-birthdate numerology.

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