If you wonder my mathematicians are so obsessed with the prime numbers, you can think of them as one of the most fundamental mathematical patterns—arising from

If you wonder my mathematicians are so obsessed with the prime numbers, you can think of them as one of the most fundamental mathematical patterns—arising from the interplay of addition and multiplication—that we are just barely skimming the surface of understanding. You could almost equally ask why physicists are so obsessed with elementary particles.