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.
Marcus du SautoyPrimes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers
Marcus du SautoyThe 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.
Marcus du SautoyThe power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
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