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.

Infographic: Visualizing Prime Numbers, For People Who Suck At Math Numbers hide complex relationships that are tough to imagine. So here’s a pretty picture that brings them to light.

Prime Numbers Could Be Predictable, Says Huge Potential Mathematical Breakthrough Grab your Ouija board and an ancient Greek dictionary; Eratosthenes is gonna want to know about this.

Math enthusiasts challenge one another to find special prime numbers, including those that are palindromes and Smarandache numbers ...

Ancient math tells us that prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...,), which have no factors except for 1 and themselves, go on forever, but more modern math adds that primes become rarer as numbers ...

The recent spate of popular books on the Riemann hypothesis, which concerns the distribution of prime numbers and is the greatest unsolved math problem since Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's famous ...

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 ...

On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd. This hypothesis, first made in 1968, has recently been proven by ...

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

A Japanese mathematician claims to have the proof for the ABC conjecture, a statement about the relationship between prime numbers that has been called the most important unsolved problem in ...

Numbers might not sound like they need discovering, but a crowd-sourced project has now identified the largest prime number known. The number was discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime ...

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.