It would fill 20,000 pages in a book. Another way to write this number is 2 136,279,841 – 1. There are a few special things about it. First, it's a prime number (meaning it is only divisible by ...

A prime number is a special number that can only be divided by one and itself. It makes them a pain for this fella who likes to divide things into neat, equal piles ...

Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben ...

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Prime numbers are beautiful, mysterious, and beguiling mathematical objects. The ...

An unimaginable number has just been discovered. Its particularity? It is a prime number with more than 41 million digits, an unprecedented find. Named M136279841 and calculated as the result of 2 ...

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A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves ...

Madison, Alexey E. Madison, Pavel A. and Kozyrev, Sergey V. 2023. Aperiodic crystals, Riemann zeta function, and primes. Structural Chemistry, Vol. 34, Issue. 3, p ...

The largest prime number is now 16 million digits longer than the previous record found in 2018, thanks to an amateur hunter and his large collection of high-power graphics cards ...