Two Friends, One Very Large Number
A Prime for You started the way all great mathematical discoveries do—over coffee, with two friends arguing about whether numbers can be gifts.
The answer, it turns out, is obviously yes.
Sebastien and David have been friends for over twenty years—one a tech architect who thinks in systems, the other a math teacher who thinks in students. Somewhere in the overlap of those two worlds sits a shared conviction: mathematics is beautiful, personal, and woefully underappreciated at dinner parties.
A Prime for You was born from a simple idea: what if everyone could own a prime number that was theirs—derived from their name, mathematically verified, and presented with the ceremony a proper prime deserves? Not because the world needed another digital product, but because the world could use a little more wonder, and prime numbers have that in infinite supply.
David brings decades of making math feel less like homework and more like a superpower. Sebastien brings the engineering to turn that feeling into something you can frame on your wall. Together, they built a place where number theory meets gift-giving—and where every name hides a mathematical secret waiting to be found.
The Humans Behind the Math
Sebastien Taggart
The Systems Guy
Sebastien has spent over twenty years building complex systems for organizations that don't tolerate downtime—including a long run architecting solutions for U.S. federal agencies. He's the kind of person who finds genuine joy in a well-structured database and considers an elegant API a form of poetry.
When David pitched the idea of personalized prime numbers, Sebastien's first thought was about the algorithm. His second thought was about the infrastructure. His third thought—roughly forty-eight hours and a working prototype later—was that he probably should have slept at some point.
At A Prime for You, Sebastien handles everything that hums quietly in the background: the prime generation engine, the platform architecture, and the certificate system. He believes technology works best when you forget it's there.
David Altshuler
The Math Whisperer
David has spent a lifetime proving that math doesn't have to be scary—and that when it's taught well, it stops being a chore and starts being genuinely fun. As an educational consultant and longtime math teacher, he's guided hundreds of students through algebraic knots and into the satisfying clarity on the other side.
He's also the author of Raising Math Loving Kids in a Math Hating World —a book for parents and educators who suspect that math phobia is contagious and want to break the cycle. A Prime for You is a natural extension of that mission: a way to make numbers feel personal, meaningful, and just a little bit magical.
David brings the heart to A Prime for You. He's the reason the certificates feel like gifts rather than receipts, and the reason our copy occasionally sounds like your favorite teacher explaining something wonderful.
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