Researchers demonstrate that there are infinitely many prime numbers of the form p²+4q² using novel and advanced ...

Through this collaborative program, anyone can download freely available software from the GIMPS website to search for Mersenne prime numbers on their personal computers. The website contains ...

Numbers like 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are all prime numbers. What fewer people know is why these numbers are so important, and how the mathematical logic behind them has resulted in vital applications ...

If you do this with all numbers from 2 to 100, only prime numbers will remain. Sieving multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 7 leaves only the primes between 1 and 100. Courtesy of M.H. Weissman.

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2 82,589,933 ...

The PTP can be used to shed light on finding a future prime, factoring an integer, visualizing an integer and its factors, identifying locations of twin primes, predicting the total number of ...