What are Prime Numbers? Why Are They Important? Check Here

Primes are integers greater than 1 with only two divisors. They are the fundamental building blocks of math and the backbone of modern cryptography.
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Mathematicians Will Never Stop Proving the Prime Number Theorem

“You don’t have to believe in God, but you have to believe in The Book,” the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős once said. The Book, which only exists in theory, contains the most elegant proofs of ...
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There's a lot we don't know about prime numbers

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Prime numbers are still one of the most mysterious topics in math — here are the most confounding problems

The basic building blocks of the whole numbers remain mysterious.
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A Special Case of a Prime Number Theorem

Workspace Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Mathematics Magazine Vol. 31, No. 5, May - Jun., 1958 A Special Case of a Prime Number ...
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What is the 'Riemann Hypothesis,' a difficult problem with a $1 million prize that, if proven, will solve the mystery of prime numbers?

The Millennium Prize Problems, announced in 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the United States, are problems with a prize of $1 million (approximately 160 million yen). One of these problems ...
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The Largest Known Prime Number

Update, Jan. 4, 2018: On Wednesday, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search announced that a computer owned by Jonathan Pace in Germantown, Tennessee, discovered a new prime number. At 23,249,425 ...