Gizmodo

A Brief History of Our Obsession With Prime Numbers—and Where the Hunt Goes Next

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 ...
The Conversation

Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. 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 ...
Wired

There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...
Scientific American

The Biggest Problem in Mathematics Is Finally a Step Closer to Being Solved

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...
CNN

Record-breaking prime number containing more than 41 million digits found by former Nvidia programmer

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