Prime numbers, those integers divisible only by one and themselves, have fascinated mathematicians for millennia. Their ...

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Their work revives long-standing mathematical curiosities but does so through a fresh window – additive combinatorics.

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Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...