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Review - The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

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#28 of 2011 ▪ The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. Prime numbers are divisible only by one and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashes, …

#28 of 2011 ▪ The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano . Prime numbers are divisible only by one and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashes, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the rest. They are suspicious, solitary numbers, which is why Mattia thought they were wonderful. Sometimes he thought they had ended up in that sequence by mistake, that they’d been trapped, like pearls strung on a necklace. Other ties he suspected that they too would have preferred to be like all the others, just ordinary numbers, but

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