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

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...

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 most ...

V.O: Take a look. What do you see? What do you see! Numbers, well done… Give yourself a healthy sugar free snack and take the rest of the day off… NO! Think it was going to be this easy? You're about ...

On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a ...

Each time you make a purchase online, your credit card number is kept safe using the power of prime numbers. Cryptography is the study of coding and sending secret messages. The idea is to construct a ...

May 30 (UPI) --A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique - the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have ...

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 themselves ...

Narrator: Prime Numbers are numbers which can only be divided by themselves and 1. And Prime factors are the prime numbers which multiply together to make a number. It can take some time to work out ...