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.

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.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

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

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

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