"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" is a marvellous book by Mark Haddon. It is murder mystery book as done by a character with Asperger's Syndrome. He is obsessed with maths and physics.
Musing about his love for prime numbers, he says "Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."
Later he discusses Occam's razor. This is a philosophical concept from several centuries ago. It states that you should always go for the simplest possible explanation of the evidence. Overcomplicated explanations are far less likely to be true. An example is what they did with the observed movement of the Sun. Yes, it looks as though it goes round the Earth, but that would mean that the planets would have to perform little spirals and loops in their orbits. Far simpler to have the Earth and all the planets going round the Sun.
Ican't recommend the book highly enough! It's brilliant. (parental advisory: lots of strong language when he reports what his parents and other adults say.)
