List of prime numbers The prime numbers between 1 and 1,000 are: Largest prime number The largest prime number discovered so far is 2 raised to the 57,885,161st power minus 1, or 2 57,885,161 - 1 ...

Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott gained worldwide attention in 2013 when he solved a 271-year-old problem: the so-called Goldbach’s weak conjecture, according to which every odd number ...

The twin primes conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for more than a century. Now there's a solution for one version of it.

The twin primes conjecture is one of the most important and difficult questions in mathematics. Two mathematicians have solved a parallel version of the problem for small number systems.

Prime numbers are a central topic of study in math. Despite being an object of fascination for millennia, there are still a lot of unsolved problems involving primes.

A year after tackling how close together prime number pairs can stay, mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can be.

Meet the new largest known prime number. It starts with a 4, continues on for 23 million digits, then ends with a 1. As is true with all prime numbers, it can only be evenly divided by one and ...

The day after Durant reported that 'M136279841 is probably a prime number,' a Mersenne primality test called the ' Lucas-Römer test ' was conducted, and it was confirmed to be a prime number.