Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also connecting two areas of math in an unexpected way ...

The popular fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering has a new card related to prime numbers. Now fans are trying to use it to tackle one of the biggest problems in mathematics ...

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units.

Prime numbers are only divisible by themselves and one. Robert Brook via Getty Images In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers ...

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.

Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software It is the 52nd Mersenne prime to be found since they were first studied over 350 years ago.

The largest known prime number has been discovered, smashing the previous record by more than 16 million digits.

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 ...

Abstract Are all prime numbers linked by four simple functions? Can we predict when a prime will appear in a sequence of primes? If we classify primes into two groups, Group 1 for all primes that ...

This program is written using Python 3 and PEP-8 formatting. The program, when run will list all the prime numbers from 1 to 100. This can be simply edited to increase the list beyond 100. The are ...