Number Theory Quotes

Odd numbers are masculine while the even numbers are feminine.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

I like math, which sounds really nerdy.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

God made integers, all else is the work of man.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.