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 ...

Infographic: Visualizing Prime Numbers, For People Who Suck At Math Numbers hide complex relationships that are tough to imagine. So here’s a pretty picture that brings them to light.

Math historian Peter S. Rudman suggests that Greek mathematicians were likely the first to understand the concept of prime numbers, around 500 B.C.E.

Math enthusiasts challenge one another to find special prime numbers, including those that are palindromes and Smarandache numbers ...

Another visit to the prime number theorem shows there are approximately 10 17,425,163 primes less than the next-largest known prime. That sounds impressive until you realize 10 17,425,163 is less ...

If you do the math, the new largest-known prime is a whopping 24,862,048 digits long. We would write the number out for you, but it would fill up thousands of pages, give or take, and look like ...

The recent spate of popular books on the Riemann hypothesis, which concerns the distribution of prime numbers and is the greatest unsolved math problem since Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's famous ...

Leo Woodall stars in a mystery series as a young Cambridge scholar whose theories about prime numbers lead him into a web of international intrigue.

Here's one for the math nerds: A computer in Missouri has identified the largest known prime number.