Data Quote by Timothy Gowers

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

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe…

— Leonhard Euler

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

— Frank Drake

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all…

— Mark Haddon

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

“Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They’re like sirens. They call you in with…

— Matt Haig

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

— Mark Haddon

“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all…

— Paolo Giordano

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

I am fascinated by prime factors. They are poetic.

— Jean Marsh

“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'. In it…

— Matt Parker