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Quotes About Primes

the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The general theme of these findings is that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.
~ Daniel Kahneman
the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others. The
~ Daniel Kahneman
Whether at his desk or at the dinner table, when he talked about numbers, primes were most likely to make an appearance. At first, it was hard to see their appeal. They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves. Still, as we were swept up in the Professor's enthusiasm, we gradually came to understand his devotion, and the primes began to seem more real, as though we could reach out and touch them.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world
~ Yôko Ogawa
Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.
~ Shakuntala Devi
What my research with priming race and test performance, and Bargh's research with the interrupters, and Maier's experiment with the ropes show is that people are ignorant of the things that affect their actions, yet they rarely feel ignorant. We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.
~ John Derbyshire
I numeri primi sono ciò che rimane una volta eliminati tutti gli schemi: penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo a pensarci su
~ Mark Haddon
Los números primos son útiles para crear códigos y en Estados Unidos los consideran Material Militar y si descubres uno de más de 100 dígitos tienes que decírselo a la CIA y te lo compran por 10.000 dólares. Pero no sería una forma demasiado buena de ganarse la vida.
~ Mark Haddon
I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.
~ Marissa Mayer
Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art.
~ Robin Sloan
Primes are the atoms of the number system: every whole number is a product of primes.
~ Peter Lynch
Los números primos vuelven a la gente loca, pero literalmente
~ Matt Haig
The square of every prime number is one more than a multiple of 24.
~ Unknown