This ginormous number has a whopping 41,024,320 digits, which isn’t very helpful for mathematicians but is certainly exciting for math nerds.

For centuries, prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians, from ancient artifacts to modern tech. Now, cloud computing and global collaborations are pushing the search for record-breaking primes ...

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for thousands of years—and now cloud computing is helping them chase the biggest ones yet.

Math enthusiasts challenge one another to find special prime numbers, including those that are palindromes and Smarandache numbers ...

Prime numbers are essential for technologies like RSA encryption, which rely on the difficulty of guessing these numerals. A new paper shows that another area of mathematics called integer ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered, smashing the previous record by more than 16 million digits.

After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the ...

Prime Numbers Could Be Predictable, Says Huge Potential Mathematical Breakthrough Grab your Ouija board and an ancient Greek dictionary; Eratosthenes is gonna want to know about this.

Math historian Peter S. Rudman suggests that Greek mathematicians were likely the first to understand the concept of prime numbers, around 500 B.C.E.