Identifying prime numbers among small integers is relatively simple, but the task becomes Herculean with large numbers. This complexity has pushed researchers to develop more sophisticated methods ...

What Ono and his team have now discovered is that partitions —a concept that counts the ways a number can be broken down into sums of smaller integers— contain hidden patterns capable of revealing ...

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for thousands of years—and now cloud computing is helping them chase the biggest ones yet.

Acknowledging that “number theory and the assumed randomness of the distribution of prime numbers has been a challenge for mathematicians for a very long time,” Jason Soroko, senior fellow at Sectigo, ...

Mathematicians have long been captivated by the elusive and random nature of prime numbers. Now, they say, prime numbers can be predicted.

These numbers, which are only divisible by 1 and themselves, form the atoms of number theory, so to speak, and have fascinated humankind for thousands of years.

A relative newcomer to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has broken a six-year drought in the search for the next prime oasis in a desert of boring ol' composite numbers.

Prime numbers have been investigated for more than 2,000 years, since at least the era of the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid. There are infinitely many, but what is the largest known prime number?

For the first time in more than 25 years, mathematicians have proven a new way to identify prime numbers, and in doing so developed a toolkit that could allow further advances in number theory.