Sept. 6 (UPI) --According to a new study, the distribution of prime numbers is similar to the positioning of atoms inside some crystalline materials. When scientists at Princeton University compared ...

Mathematicians have taken a step forward in understanding patterns within the primes, numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. According to the new work, the population of prime numbers contains an ...

Chemist Reveals a Surprising Prime Number Pattern | RealClearScienceAbout a year ago, the theoretical chemist Salvatore Torquato met with the number theorist Matthew de Courcy-Ireland to explain that ...

Today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m., the Exploratorium in San Francisco will be celebrating one of the most important numbers of mathematics: pi. Unchanging, if hard to pin down, it expresses the ratio ...

What would be the best way for an advanced alien civilisation to make its presence known across the galaxy? It might be to make the planets in its star system dance in mathematical sequence. Many ...

Apple TV+’s latest espionage thriller manages to make the world of math a white-knuckled adventure. “Prime Target” stars Leo Woodall as a recent post-grad who stumbles into the knowledge that a prime ...

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand ...