It's videos like this one from YouTube user Numberphile that make us mortals realize why mathematicians view math as art, or perhaps as power. Highly composite numbers—numbers that have more divisible ...

Mrs. Post and her kids, Hayden and Hallie, play a curveball game to review what prime and composite numbers are. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

There are no known examples so far, but mathematicians are hopeful. Mathematicians have revealed a new category of “digitally delicate” prime numbers. These infinitely long primes turn back to ...

Mathematicians have been studying the distribution of prime numbers for thousands of years. Recent results about a curious kind of prime offer a new take on how spread out they can be. You may have ...

The study of prime numbers has long been a central part of number theory, a field traditionally pursued for its own sake and for the mathematical beauty of its results. The number theorist Don Zagier ...

A prime factor is a natural number, other than 1, whose only factors are 1 and itself. The first few prime numbers are actually 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and so on. Now we can also use what’s called prime ...

Its subject: Carmichael numbers, those strange composite numbers that could sometimes pass themselves off as prime. All but Prime In the mid-17th century, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat ...