“Along with working on the Basel problem, Euler realized that adding an infinite sequence of reciprocal powers for all whole numbers will… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians call them twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For… — Daniel Goldston Copy Share Image
'A Perfect Place' is character-driven. The director for that wanted a couple of identifiable themes with a bunch of variations. That is… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure what prime numbers have to do with anything,” I say in a gentle voice. “Prime numbers have to do… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato Copy Share Image
“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
“The Riemann Hypothesis states that all the non-trivial zeroes of the zeta function are on this line. If we can prove the… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean - have… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied;… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything? — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
“An anonymous sponsor has put up the cash via an organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a bounty on prime numbers:… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“My penis is seven. Not years old or even inches. No, my genitalia is the prime number seven. Isn’t that odd?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“mathematics professor in Russia slugging it out with another mathematics professor in India, kilobyte for kilobyte, over some stupefyingly arcane detail in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“When one made love to zero spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath...” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
