The Loneliness of Prime Numbers is the debut novel of Paolo Giordano, an Italian post-1980s writer with a doctorate in particle physics. After it was published in 2008, it won the Strega Prize, Italy's highest literary award, and quickly became a super bestseller in Europe and the United States. So far, it has sold more than 5 million copies in Europe. The film of the same name premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010. Mattia is a young mathematical genius who believes that he is one of the prime numbers, and that his middle school classmate Alice is his twin prime number. They all have painful pasts, are equally lonely, and are equally unable to close the distance with other people. From adolescence to adulthood, their lives continue to intersect, trying to eliminate the obstacles that exist between them, influencing each other and being separated from each other, like twin prime numbers, close to each other but never able to get close.
Reader comments
Suppressed pain, calm loneliness, I didn't understand the meaning of the title until I read the last page of the book. Even if there are twin prime numbers, there is still a composite number between them, not to mention the countless time and the new and old pain, they are so similar but can never be touched. I thought the missed years would bring them back together, but the same lonely people couldn't stay with each other and finally redeemed themselves alone.
"Now Mattia understands that the choice is only a matter of seconds, and the rest of the time can be used to pay off the debt."
The distance between us is always far, far away. It's just that we still have a trace of warmth between each other, which is neither strong nor light, nor light. It's a pity that we are all too cautious and hesitant to move forward, so we cannot exchange sincerity for sincerity.
I finished reading it in one go, just like staying at home and eating toast in front of a foggy window on a rainy day. There is a mist-shrouded sadness. This ending was surprising at first and felt like it stopped suddenly. But when I thought about it later, it was actually quite normal. As mentioned in the title and the book, the male and female protagonists are twin prime numbers and are adjacent to each other only separated by an even number. Prime numbers are lonely but lonely. During this period, I lamented whether it would be better for the male and female protagonists or Alice and Faobi to communicate with their parents, but they were not very upset. The male and female protagonists' childhood experiences made them form this kind of character, and this personality made them unable to speak. Prime numbers cannot be divided by numbers other than one and themselves.
The author is very good. I learned about it. He is a virgin with a Ph. D. In physics but won the highest Italian literary award. The author's writing style is very good. The rhythm of the whole book is very comfortable. It is as concise as mathematical formulas but rich in content. There are no ups and downs in the plot. There is not even a direct description of the accident of the male and female protagonists and the death of the heroine's mother. It is like looking out of the window through the water vapor in winter to see a heavy snowfall. You cannot directly feel the cold, but it does exist.
I saw it said online that the page numbers in this book are all prime numbers. I really want to read the physical book.
Regarding many plots, especially the ending, I read book reviews online, and they were very well written. I just want to describe my overall feeling after reading them. Many people are lonely prime numbers, silently in their own world through the window, one after another heavy snowfall.
This book is very interesting, it reminded me of "The Worry-Free Grocery Store". Both stories are about human connection and loneliness. Just like prime numbers, even if they are very close, they are never really close. The story of Mattia and Alice made me feel their loneliness and helplessness, and it also reminded me of the times when I sometimes feel alone. However, seeing them work hard to change inspired me to study harder and change my own life.
They were never each other's companions, they were just two unrelated but equally lonely prime numbers trapped in the vast sea of numbers. Loneliness is the only thing they have in common. Which is more painful, being abandoned by the world or actively abandoning the world?
Two lonely people, attracted to each other but far away from each other
Lonely, brave, painful, plain. The souls that have briefly met pass through the gap between each other, leaving a hole. Fill in the hole with memories and the past, and it will still become the same as it was originally, without any change. The efforts of prime numbers to get closer to each other are like rubber bands that will never reach the other end. In the end, they will still return to that position, and there will still be a distance of 1 between us.
I read this book in the school bookstore when I was in high school. The page numbers of the paper book were very interesting. They were arranged in the order of prime numbers, that is, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17... The joy at that time was to count the numbers on the next page while reading.
Life without meeting each other is like participating in business
The writing is beautiful, and the ending of the male and female protagonists is inevitable and sad, but this is life.
Suppressed pain, calm loneliness, I didn't understand the meaning of the title until I read the last page of the book. Even if there are twin prime numbers, there is still a composite number between them, not to mention the countless time and the new and old pain, they are so similar but can never be touched. I thought the missed years would bring them back together, but the same lonely people couldn't stay with each other and finally redeemed themselves alone. "Now Mattia understands that the choice is only a matter of seconds, and the rest of the time can be used to pay off the debt."
The distance between us is always far, far away. It's just that we still have a trace of warmth between each other, which is neither strong nor light, nor light. It's a pity that we are all too cautious and hesitant to move forward, so we cannot exchange sincerity for sincerity.
I finished reading it in one go, just like staying at home and eating toast in front of a foggy window on a rainy day. There is a mist-shrouded sadness. This ending was surprising at first and felt like it stopped suddenly. But when I thought about it later, it was actually quite normal. As mentioned in the title and the book, the male and female protagonists are twin prime numbers and are adjacent to each other only separated by an even number. Prime numbers are lonely but lonely. During this period, I lamented whether it would be better for the male and female protagonists or Alice and Faobi to communicate with their parents, but they were not very upset. The male and female protagonists' childhood experiences made them form this kind of character, and this personality made them unable to speak. Prime numbers cannot be divided by numbers other than one and themselves. The author is very good. I learned about it. He is a virgin with a Ph. D. In physics but won the highest Italian literary award. The author's writing style is very good. The rhythm of the whole book is very comfortable. It is as concise as mathematical formulas but rich in content. There are no ups and downs in the plot. There is not even a direct description of the accident of the male and female protagonists and the death of the heroine's mother. It is like looking out of the window through the water vapor in winter to see a heavy snowfall. You cannot directly feel the cold, but it does exist. I saw it said online that the page numbers in this book are all prime numbers. I really want to read the physical book. Regarding many plots, especially the ending, I read book reviews online, and they were very well written. I just want to describe my overall feeling after reading them. Many people are lonely prime numbers, silently in their own world through the window, one after another heavy snowfall.
This book is very interesting, it reminded me of "The Worry-Free Grocery Store". Both stories are about human connection and loneliness. Just like prime numbers, even if they are very close, they are never really close. The story of Mattia and Alice made me feel their loneliness and helplessness, and it also reminded me of the times when I sometimes feel alone. However, seeing them work hard to change inspired me to study harder and change my own life.
They were never each other's companions, they were just two unrelated but equally lonely prime numbers trapped in the vast sea of numbers. Loneliness is the only thing they have in common. Which is more painful, being abandoned by the world or actively abandoning the world?
Two lonely people, attracted to each other but far away from each other
Lonely, brave, painful, plain. The souls that have briefly met pass through the gap between each other, leaving a hole. Fill in the hole with memories and the past, and it will still become the same as it was originally, without any change. The efforts of prime numbers to get closer to each other are like rubber bands that will never reach the other end. In the end, they will still return to that position, and there will still be a distance of 1 between us.
I read this book in the school bookstore when I was in high school. The page numbers of the paper book were very interesting. They were arranged in the order of prime numbers, that is, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17... The joy at that time was to count the numbers on the next page while reading.
Life without meeting each other is like participating in business
The writing is beautiful, and the ending of the male and female protagonists is inevitable and sad, but this is life.