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Prime numbers are one of the most basic topics of study in the branch of mathematics called number theory. Primes are numbers that can only be evenly divided by themselves and 1.

A collaborative computer project has discovered the largest known prime number. The new prime number is nearly one million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class ...

An effort in which thousands of people donate their computers' unused processing power uncovers the largest prime number so far known.

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 ...

Prime numbers are found hidden in nature, but humans have made spectacular use of them, writes mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.

The number certainly doesn't seem particularly exciting. 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.

Somewhere out there on the number line, huge prime numbers are lurking, waiting to be discovered. On Wednesday, a new one was. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime… ...

If you do the math, the new largest-known prime is a whopping 24,862,048 digits long. We would write the number out for you, but it would fill up thousands of pages, give or take, and look like ...

Smallest Prime Number: 2 is the smallest prime number in the set of prime numbers, as it is only divisible by 1 and itself. This property makes it unique among all prime numbers.