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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

“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

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

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

“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 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 atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

— Marcus du Sautoy

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

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

— Euclid

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

— Mark Haddon

Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.

— Lev Landau

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

— Charlie Chaplin