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.

The number 1 is not a prime number or a composite number. It is often referred to as a unit. The only even prime number is 2. All other even numbers can be divided by 2 Knowledge of prime numbers ...

A mathematical treasure hunt Numbers: The search for world-record prime numbers has captured the imagination of everyone from grade-schoolers to computer experts.

‘Once Upon a Prime’ finds the hidden math in literature Sarah Hart chronicles an underrated love affair between the arts of numbers and letters ...

An amateur mathematician from San Jose, US, has discovered the largest prime number yet with over 41 million digits. Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, are divisible only by ...

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 ...

Mathematicians at Stanford University found that prime numbers aren't completely random. Instead, neighbouring prime numbers were found to avoid repeating their last digits.

The Math Missus Sarah Smellie shows us how prime numbers keep our online shopping safe from cyber thieves and super spies.

As a math deficient liberal arts major, I asked Davies if his visualization offers us a glimpse into how he “sees” numbers, a peek behind the curtain of a mathematical mind.

On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd. This hypothesis, first made in 1968, has recently been proven by ...