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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.

Finally, Two Days Ago, I Succeeded - Not On Account Of My Hard Efforts, But By The Grace Of The Lord. Like A Sudden Flash Of Lightning, The Riddle Was Solved. I Am Unable To Say What Was The Conducting Thread That Connected What I Previously Knew With What Made My Success Possible.

Further, The Dignity Of The Science Itself Seems To Require That Every Possible Means Be Explored For The Solution Of A Problem So Elegant And So Celebrated.

Mathematicians Stand On Each Other's Shoulders.

A Great Part Of Its Theories Derives An Additional Charm From The Peculiarity That Important Propositions, With The Impress Of Simplicity On Them, Are Often Easily Discovered By Induction, And Yet Are Of So Profound A Character That We Cannot Find The Demonstrations Till After Many Vain Attempts; And Even Then, When We Do Succeed, It Is Often By Some Tedious And Artificial Process, While The Simple Methods May Long Remain Concealed.