For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

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Mathematicians have spent millennia trying to understand prime numbers – those only divisible by themselves and 1 – but so far no one has discovered a pattern for the primes. Now mathematician Simon ...

A prime number is a number that is only divisible by one and itself, which is essentially saying that it has no divisor. That takes half of all possible numbers off the table right away (the evens), ...

Mathematicians have found the largest prime number ever identified - which is 17 million digits long. The new record holder and its predecessor, discovered in 2008, were both found using a vast ...