Prime numbers, those integers divisible only by one and themselves, have fascinated mathematicians for millennia. Their distribution among other numbers remains a mystery, despite technological ...

Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott gained worldwide attention in 2013 when he solved a 271-year-old problem: the so-called Goldbach’s weak conjecture, according to which every odd number greater ...

For centuries prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help them identify primes and the way they are distributed among other ...