Prime numbers are special numbers, greater than 1, that have exactly two factors, themselves and 1. 19 is a prime number. It can only be divided by 1 and 19. 9 is not a prime number. It can be ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked ...

Durant, from San Jose, California, found the prime number 2-1, with the prime number taking the name M136279841. "Physicists ...

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 ...

How much do you remember about prime numbers from math class? That they’re only divisible by one and themselves? Every other number can be broken down into them? They follow a pattern that ...

Later, he tells Mallinder what he’s working on. “What if God’s cipher, here on earth, the DNA of existence, is actually prime numbers?” Mallinder dismisses Edward’s theories, but what ...