Primes are integers greater than 1 with only two divisors. They are the fundamental building blocks of math and the backbone of modern cryptography.

“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 ...

The basic building blocks of the whole numbers remain mysterious.

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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 ...

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 ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

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 ...

A number is a mathematical object that we use to count, measure and label. For example, we reply in numbers to questions such as: “How old are you?” and “How tall are you?” In this digital age, ...

Today would’ve been the 100th birthday of the Hungary-born mathematician who published so many papers--and many with such great impact--that a playful measure of one’s academic affiliation with him ...