A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...

Eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number can be generated from a Mersenne prime, so finding one promises a two-for-one deal on math discoveries.

In Cambridge, England, we meet Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall), a graduate student in math who is one of the ... is actually prime numbers?” Mallinder dismisses Edward’s theories, but what Edward ...

Today, prime numbers and their properties are studied in number theory, a branch of mathematics and active area of research today. A history of prime numbers Informally, a positive counting number ...

And as you count up and up, prime numbers become more sparse. Math lovers are always competing to find the largest prime number, and just recently, an engineer discovered the largest one—so far. And ...

The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841 ... which he says he's donating to the math department of his alma mater, the Alabama School of Math and Science.

“Prime Target” marries the world of math and espionage as a recent graduate fights to keep a discovery with – you guessed it – prime numbers unlocks an unprecedented amount of access to ...

For those who number ourselves among the algebraically impaired, higher math is like outer space ... critic’s to declare the mystery series “Prime Target” full of baloney, but throw ...

“Right now, math nerds are probably the most dangerous ... “He had explained that in modern cryptography, everything is based on prime numbers, and that if anybody ever solved it, we’d ...