EUCLIDEAN

Euclid demonstrated (Elements, Book IX, Prop. 20) that the primes are ‘unending', or, in his words: "More prime numbers may be given than any multitude whatsoever of prime numbers propounded."... When asked what God was doing before the Creation, J. E. Littlewood remarked, "Millions of words must have been written on this; but he was doing Pure Mathematics and thought it would be a pleasant change to do some Applied." (Littlewood's Miscellany, p.

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