Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

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.