Prime numbers are a central topic of study in math. Despite being an object of fascination for millennia, there are still a lot of unsolved problems involving primes. Prime numbers are one of the ...

Infographic: Visualizing Prime Numbers, For People Who Suck At Math Numbers hide complex relationships that are tough to imagine. So here’s a pretty picture that brings them to light.

To study primes, mathematicians strain whole numbers through one virtual mesh after another until only primes remain. This sieving process produced tables of millions of primes in the 1800s. It ...

Jon Pace, a longtime FedEx employee, has loved math since high school. Then he discovered the world's largest prime.

In this case, "n" is equal to 82,589,933, which is itself a prime number. If you do the math, the new largest-known prime is a whopping 24,862,048 digits long.

Edward Brook (The White Lotus ’ Leo Woodall) is a post-graduate math whiz at Cambridge who’s obsessed with prime numbers. Though he doesn’t particularly care for Professor Robert Mallinder ...

When the King of Norway presents the award to Langlands in May, he will honor the latest in a 2,300-year effort to understand prime numbers, arguably the biggest and oldest data set in mathematics.

What if we were to choose, say, your mobile phone number for a string of digits? Well, then there are infinitely many prime numbers which contain your phone number within their digits.

A Proof from Antiquity Mathematics has an unlimited number of prime number building blocks. Euclid proved this more than 2,000 years ago with a simple thought experiment. Suppose there were only a ...

Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

Consecutive prime numbers don’t behave as randomly as mathematicians assumed.