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

A prime number is an integer, or whole number, that has only two factors — 1 and itself. Put another way, a prime number can be divided evenly only by 1 and by itself. Prime numbers also must be ...

An odd new paper without peer review claims prime numbers have "genes," "roots," and “offspring." Prime numbers are essential to modern life because they underpin all of encryption. What is written ...

A vector $m = (m_1,\ldots, m_n) \in \mathbf{Z}^n\backslash\{0\}$ is called an integer relation for the real numbers $\alpha_1,\ldots, \alpha_n$, if $\sum \alpha_im_i ...