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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Edward Brook (The White Lotus ’ Leo Woodall) is a post-graduate math whiz at Cambridge who’s obsessed with prime numbers. Though he doesn’t particularly care for Professor Robert Mallinder ...

What if we were to choose, say, your mobile phone number for a string of digits? Well, then there are infinitely many prime numbers which contain your phone number within their digits.

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.

In this case, "n" is equal to 82,589,933, which is itself a prime number. If you do the math, the new largest-known prime is a whopping 24,862,048 digits long.

This past week, John Pace of Germantown, Tenn., made a massive discovery. He found the largest prime number known to humankind. It's more than 23 million digits long.