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The Problem Of Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers And Of Resolving The Latter Into Their Prime Factors Is Known To Be One Of The Most Important And Useful In Arithmetic.

To Praise It Would Amount To Praising Myself. For The Entire Content Of The Work... Coincides Almost Exactly With My Own Meditations Which Have Occupied My Mind For The Past Thirty Or Thirty-five Years.

Mathematics Is The Queen Of Science, And Arithmetic The Queen Of Mathematics.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment.

[on Sophie Germain] When A Person Of The Sex Which, According To Our Customs And Prejudices, Must Encounter Infinitely More Difficulties Than Men... Succeeds Nevertheless In Surmounting These Obstacles And Penetrating The Most Obscure Parts Of [number Theory], Then Without Doubt She Must Have The Noblest Courage, Quite Extraordinary Talents And Superior Genius.