QOTD

Jul. 12th, 2004 06:19 pm
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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon), p. 12

This struck me when I read it. Not true in some ways, very true in others. And of course I love having mathematical metaphors :-).
[The book is excellent, btw; I highly recommend it.]

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