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 ...

Las Vegas(KLAS)-The new drama “Prime Target” features a brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks (played by Leo Woodall), who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding ...

Jacob Aron discusses patterns in prime numbers (19 March, p 12). This prompted me to wonder whether the patterns would persist if you considered the last two digits in a prime number rather than the ...

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 ...

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 ...