Prime Numbers Quotes

• Los matemáticos han intentado en vano hasta hoy descubrir algún orden en la secuencia de los números primos, y tenemos razones para creer que se trata de un misterio en el que la mente humana nunca penetrará.

  Leonhard Euler

  Creer, Matemáticas, Orden

  "Joyas del cálculo: Vidas breves y matemáticas memorables". Libro de George F. Simmons, 1992.

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• Puede que Dios no juegue a los dados con el universo, pero algo extraño ocurre con los números primos.

  Paul Erdos

  Play, Numbers, May

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• Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

  Mark Haddon

  Taken, Math, Thinking

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.50, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Would Be, Development

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). "The Road Ahead", Wheeler Pub Incorporated.

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• La reciprocidad cuadrática es la canción del amor en el país de los números primos.

  Kato

  Canción, Matemáticas, Tierra

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

  Lev Landau

  Numbers, Add, Prime

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

  Euclides

  Numbers, Prime, Units

  "Euclid's Elements, Book 7, Definition 11". Book by Euclid,

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• 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?

  Guillermo de Ockham

  Numbers, Prime, Bother

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• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mean, Idaho, Dignity

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.

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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 the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Numbers, Important, Problem

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.

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• Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

  Timothy Gowers

  Data, Numbers, Determined

  Timothy Gowers (2002). “Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.121, Oxford Paperbacks

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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 the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. ... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mean, Numbers, Important

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1801.

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• I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7.

  Galileo Galilei

  Son, Numbers, Useless

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• The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Numbers, Proud

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• If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

  Martin Gardner

  Writing, Science, Numbers

  Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan

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• The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

  David Deutsch

  Fall, Apples, Numbers

  "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence" by David Deutsch, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2012.

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• 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant horizon of the oceans, in the New World that I am going to discover, there are surely lots of them.

  Cristóbal Colón

  Ocean, Numbers, Horizon

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• It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

  Kato

  Home, Math, Numbers

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• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  Daniel Goldston

  Science, Media, Numbers

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• The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.

  Kato

  Mother, Father, Princess

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• My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

  James Arthur

  Beautiful, Dad, Believe

  "La poesía como forma de pensar: Entrevista con James Arthur". Entrevista con Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Primos gemelos: pares de números primos que están cerca el uno del otro, casi vecinos, pero entre los que siempre hay un número par que impide que se toquen de verdad. Si sigues contando, descubres que estos pares se vuelven poco a poco más raros, perdidos en ese espacio silencioso y medido hecho sólo de cifras. Desarrollas un angustioso presentimiento de que las parejas encontradas hasta ese momento fueron accidentales, de que la soledad es el verdadero destino. Entonces, justo cuando estás a punto de rendirte, te cruzas con otra pareja de gemelos, abrazados con fuerza.

  Paolo Giordano

  Destino, Números, Espacio

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• 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 these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.

  Saharon Shelah

  Science, Numbers, Sometimes

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