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

Would you like to be a millionaire? There are several ways to fulfill this dream. For two decades the U.S. edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? promised a million dollars if you could answer 15 ...

MATHEMATICIANS have spent millennia trying to understand prime numbers – those only divisible by themselves and 1 – but so far no one has discovered a formula for all of them. Now mathematician Simon ...

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 ...

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 ...