PERSON@1 writes extensively on numbers , especially on the significance of prime numbers and perfect numbers and argues that arithmetic is ontologically prior to the other mathematical sciences -LRB- geometry , music , and astronomy -RRB- , and is their cause .

In Introduction to Arithmetic , PERSON@1 writes extensively on number , especially on the significance of prime numbers and perfect numbers and argues that arithmetic is ontologically prior to the other mathematical sciences -LRB- geometry , music , and astronomy -RRB- , and is their cause .
