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- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of… — Hermann Weyl
- Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra
- Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. — Hendrik Lenstra
- [On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would… — Terence Tao
- I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on… — Jim Sanborn