The Expert View

Marcus Du Sautoy

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Reading numbers

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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.

Content last updated: 13/09/2005