Nevertheless, people have known since ancient times that infinitely many ... using what mathematicians call prime number sieves. These constructs can be imagined as a real sieve: you tip all the ...

In the nineteenth century, mathematicians proved the Prime Number Theorem. Given some large natural number, the theorem gives a rough estimate for how many numbers ... in the problem, for which ...

The conjecture predicts that there are infinitely many such pairs among the counting numbers, or integers. Mathematicians made a burst of progress on the problem ... prime polynomials, it’s ...