Prime numbers are a central topic of study in math. Despite being an object of fascination for millennia, there are still a lot of unsolved problems involving primes. Prime numbers are one of the ...

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

To study primes, mathematicians strain whole numbers through one virtual mesh after another until only primes remain. This sieving process produced tables of millions of primes in the 1800s. It ...

Jon Pace, a longtime FedEx employee, has loved math since high school. Then he discovered the world's largest prime.

But math is full of uncertainties—it just hides them well. Of course, I understand the point. If your teacher asks whether 7 is a prime number, the answer is definitively “yes.” ...

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

When the King of Norway presents the award to Langlands in May, he will honor the latest in a 2,300-year effort to understand prime numbers, arguably the biggest and oldest data set in mathematics.

‘Once Upon a Prime’ finds the hidden math in literature Sarah Hart chronicles an underrated love affair between the arts of numbers and letters ...

Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

Zhang himself says that "something impressive" probably has no practical application, though prime numbers do extend beyond the realm of pure math into more real-world uses.

In "Once Upon a Prime," Sarah Hart takes readers on a fascinating tour of the world of numbers, finding connections between math and literature.