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.

  • -- Carl Friedrich Gauss 高斯

素数与合数的区别问题以及将合数分解为素数因子的问题是算术中最重要和最有用的问题之一。

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If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

如果培养下一代是很重要的,为什么他们不是最合格、收入最高的人?为什么我们不像关心那些在教育或卫生服务领域工作的人那样关心他们的职业发展呢?

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

我们在我们自己的集体生活、我们的国家、我们的世界和社会的发展中发挥着真正的作用。抓住这些机会很重要,而灾难有时就是其中之一。

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

最难掌握的算术是能让我们计算自己的幸福。

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

音乐是声音的算术,正如光学是光的几何。

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

学问,名词。区分好学的人的那种无知。