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The Expert View

 
Marcus Du Sautoy
Marcus Du Sautoy

More, more, more

The universe hums with the sound of numbers. Tune in to their song with More Or Less.

Reading numbers

Explore more about numbers, and how they relate, with some hand-picked words from our books and weblinks.

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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.

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