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Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

  • It wasn’t that hard to do. It took focus, it took dedication. It took him, by his estimate "three years of Sundays".
  • We live in an age where some of the great breakthroughs are not going to happen in the labs or the halls of academia, but on laptops, desktops, in the palms of people’s hands, we are simply helping out for the search.

  • For me it’s amazing because it’s a metaphor for the time in which we live, when human minds and machines can conquer together.

  • How lucky are we to live in this age, when mind and machine can work together.
  • That’s what is so exciting for me about this prime number: we thought it might be there, and we went and found it. That is the essence of being human. That is what we are all about.
  • As my friend Descartes might put it, "cogito ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am".