Infographic: Visualizing Prime Numbers, For People Who Suck At Math Numbers hide complex relationships that are tough to imagine. So here’s a pretty picture that brings them to light.

Prime numbers are one of the most basic topics of study in the branch of mathematics called number theory. Primes are numbers that can only be evenly divided by themselves and 1.

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for centuries with their unpredictable and seemingly random distribution. In a groundbreaking preprint study, researchers devised a novel method that ...

The Math Missus Sarah Smellie shows us how prime numbers keep our online shopping safe from cyber thieves and super spies.

For the first time in more than 25 years, mathematicians have proven a new way to identify prime numbers, and in doing so developed a toolkit that could allow further advances in number theory ...