Arithmetic Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.

— Shakuntala Devi

“For example, to a mathematician, the number 28 is really 2×2×7, which is known as the prime decomposition of 28. Prime numbers are, in…

— Matt Parker

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of…

— G. H. Hardy

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

— Marcus du Sautoy

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

— Euclid

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very…

— Mark Haddon

“Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.”

— Mark Haddon

“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether…

— Mark Haddon

Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all…

— Saharon Shelah

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

— Bill Gates

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato