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The Expert View
Follow our expert guides to prime numbers:

"is there a biggest prime, or can I always find a bigger one?"
A prime primer: Simon Singh gives an overview of what prime numbers are.

"a strange mathematical landscape whose contours held the secrets of how the primes were distributed"
Patterns and landscapes: Marcus du Sautoy takes us deeper into the patterns of prime numbers.

"they’re like the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of mathematics"
Talking primes: BBC Radio 4's Material World discusses what these numbers might mean.



Marcus Du Sautoy
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Reading Numbers
Explore more about numbers, and how they relate, with some hand-picked words from our books and weblinks.
More, More, More
The universe hums with the sound of numbers. Tune in to their song with More Or Less.