In this case, however, Durant’s Mersenne prime number find may provide a very clear example of how GPU cloud supercomputers can be used to advance far more than just controversial AI projects.

A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably construct large prime numbers.

The discovery of the largest prime number ever found has just been announced to the world. 2 136,279,841 -1, known as M136279841, was found by amateur “prime-hunter” Luke Durant on October 11 ...

After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analogue of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis.