New York’s retail leasing market is getting tight. Vacancies in Manhattan’s prime retail corridors reached their lowest ...

It's not a prime number or a power of 2 or the square of some other number. The digits don't seem to follow any obvious pattern. That's what mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy thought when, ...

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 ...

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

Around 300 BCE, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Mathematicians have since built on his theorem, ... or a perfect square—makes the problem much harder.

Prime numbers, when expressed as that number of dots, can be arranged only in a single row or column, rather than a square or rectangle. Credit: David Eppstein/Wikimedia Commons ...

A prime number is an integer that can’t be divided by any integer other than itself and 1. ... by definition, no prime number has an integer square root or any other factor besides itself and 1.

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number in nearly six years.

If the number is divisible by any of the prime numbers less than its square root then it is not a prime number. List of Prime Numbers from 1 to 100.