Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data. — Timothy Gowers 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 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
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato 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 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
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
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
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
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. — Paul Erdos 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 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
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.… — Kato Copy Share Image
