they will still be an important part of GIMPS and may well find the next prime number.” Durant credits much of his success to the education he received at the Alabama School of Mathematics and ...

Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...

Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds ...

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number in nearly six years.

Unlike in many popular math books puffed up with anecdotal material, the authors here treat the reader as seriously interested in prime numbers and build up the real math in four stages with ...

A prime number has exactly two factors, itself and one. The first ten prime numbers are \({2}\), \({3}\), \({5}\), \({7}\), \({11}\), \({13}\), \({17}\), \({19 ...

The Clay Institute is offering a million dollar prize to anyone who can spot any pattern to the appearance of Prime Numbers. A million dollars! Forget TV Talent Shows, Mathematics is where fame ...

Prime numbers are intriguing numbers that are greater than 1 and can be evenly divided only by themselves and 1. The four smallest prime numbers are 2, 3, 5 and 7. Next comes 11, which is quite a ...