I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They’re like sirens. They call you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'.… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any… — david wells Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added. — Lev Landau Copy Share Image
Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“For example, to a mathematician, the number 28 is really 2×2×7, which is known as the prime decomposition of 28. Prime numbers… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away for ever.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton… — Marta Acosta Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
