Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben ...

A prime number has exactly two factors, itself and one. The first ten prime numbers are \({2}\), \({3}\), \({5}\), \({7}\), \({11}\), \({13}\), \({17}\), \({19 ...

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Summing Up: Essential. All readers.' D. V. Feldman, CHOICE 'Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis is an agile, unusual book written over a decade, one week per year; it can be considered a sort of ...

However, for Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer, prime numbers became an all-consuming passion. He devoted nearly one year and invested a considerable sum of his own money to ...

A prime number has exactly two factors, itself and one. The first ten prime numbers are \({2}\), \({3}\), \({5}\), \({7}\), \({11}\), \({13}\), \({17}\), \({19 ...