Quotable Mathematics

"Whoever proves or disproves [the Riemann Hypothesis] will cover himself in glory..." ( Eric T Bell, 1937) "[...] the Riemann...

"God's dice always have a lucky roll." (Sophocles, 5th century BC) "[...] to repeat the same throw ten thousand times wit...

"Rather mathematicians like to look for patterns, and the primes probably offer the ultimate challenge. When you look at a list of them...

"Factoring big numbers is a strange kind of mathematics that closely resembles the experimental sciences, where nature has the last and...

"Chess combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the recreational delights of a competitive game." (Martin Gardner, ...

“Arithmetic has for its object the properties of number in the abstract. In algebra, viewed as a science of operations, order is the predomi...

“A perfect number is that which is equal to the sum of its own parts.” (Euclid, “Elements”, cca. 300 BC) “ If as many numbers as we please...

“I can show you that the art of computation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other...

“Since primes are the basic building blocks of the number universe from which all the other natural numbers are composed, each in its own un...

"The prime numbers are useful in analyzing problems concerning divisibility, and also are interesting in themselves because of some of ...

"The prime numbers are useful in analyzing problems concerning divisibility, and also are interesting in themselves because of some of ...

“One of the remarkable aspects of the distribution of prime numbers is their tendency to exhibit global regularity and local irregularity. T...