For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

A partial solution to a centuries-old problem known as the twin prime conjecture now affirms the idea that an infinite number of prime numbers have companions — and that a maximum distance between ...

Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. A number is ...

if there is some fixed gap for which, on an infinite number of occasions, there will be a pair of prime numbers. The famous twin prime conjecture, for example, states that there are an infinite number ...

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

An exciting breakthrough by an academic little known before last year is firing up mathematicians. Now even playwrights are getting in on the act. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection ...

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 ...

Prime numbers are whole numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. Numbers like 5 and 7, Glenbrook North High School computer science and math teacher Steve Goodman tells the layman. Late in the Cold ...