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

Infinity down, only 69,999,997 to go. New research has proven that prime numbers don't just disappear as numbers get larger — instead, there is an infinite number of prime numbers separated by a ...

Baker (Mind 114: 223-238,2005; Brit J Philos Sei 60: 611-633,2009) has recently defended what he calls the "enhanced" version of the indispensability argument for mathematical Platonism. In this paper ...

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