Terry Tao and maths

 "That is all you need to spot the primes — though, eerily, scientists have uncovered deep connections between primes and quantum mechanics that remain unexplained. Imagine that there is an advanced civilization of aliens around some distant star: They surely do not speak English, they may or may not have developed television, but we can be almost certain that their mathematicians have discovered the primes and puzzled over them."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-073015-L11&nl=el&nlid=17683848&_r=0