Famous quotes containing the words prime, number, theorem and/or table:
“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)