Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime ...

It "represents theoretical math that could’ve been done decades ago" - but it has big implications for the future.

Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that ...

CERTAIN quadratic series abound in prime numbers1. Take, for example, the following Sequence in which the consecutive differences are 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. These are all prime numbers; the next term in ...

A History Of Prime Numbers Informally, a positive counting number larger than one is prime if that number of dots can be arranged only into a rectangular array with one column or one row. For example, ...

For example, 11 is a prime number since 11 dots form only rectangular arrays of sizes 1 by 11 and 11 by 1. Conversely, 12 is not prime since you can use 12 dots to make an array of 3 by 4 dots ...

For example, six is a perfect number because 6 = 2 × 3 = 1 + 2 + 3. Likewise, 28 = 4 × 7 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. For every Mersenne prime, there is also an even perfect number. (In one of the oldest ...