Prime numbers are the ones that have only two factors: 1 and itself. Credit: Ssindhwani / Wikimedia Commons Prime numbers are those divisible only by themselves and by one. Despite their apparent ...

A pair of mathematicians appears to have discovered that there are unexpected patterns in the prime-number sequence — previously thought to behave more randomly. A prime is a number that is divisible ...

Mathematicians have taken a step forward in understanding patterns within the primes, numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. According to the new work, the population of prime numbers contains an ...

The number 1888081808881 is interesting on several counts. First, it’s a prime number, evenly divisible only by itself and 1. In base 10, it’s also a palindromic number. It has the same sequence of ...

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 ...

What would be the best way for an advanced alien civilisation to make its presence known across the galaxy? It might be to make the planets in its star system dance in mathematical sequence. Many ...

A pair of mathematicians appear to have discovered that there are unexpected patterns in the prime number sequence — previously thought to behave more randomly. A prime is a number only divisible by 1 ...