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 ...

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

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, an organization devoted to doing exactly what its name suggests, announced that it had discovered a new prime number, the largest ever found: \(2 ...

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 ...

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.

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 specific ...