Mathematicians are stunned by the discovery that prime numbers are pickier than previously thought. The find suggests number theorists need to be a little more careful when exploring the vast ...

Two mathematicians have found a strange pattern in prime numbers — showing that the numbers are not distributed as randomly as theorists often assume.

New Delhi: In a development that has stirred the mathematical world, two researchers have taken a route to unlock hidden patterns in prime numbers – one that blends old wisdom with unexpected tools.

A perplexing optical illusion challenges viewers to find the numbers 64 and 49 hidden within a grid of repeating 46s. This brain teaser exploits patte ...

In other words, although countless data sets show Benford's pattern, the most reliable way to manifest it is to pull numbers from varying sources, such as those we see in a newspaper.

Two academics have shocked themselves and the world of mathematics by discovering a pattern in prime numbers. Primes - numbers greater than 1 that are divisible only by themselves and 1 – are ...