For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

Like a mirror image of Bedford's Law, mathematicians have found a pattern in prime numbers that raises more questions than it answers. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

In the Prime Target trailer, Leo Woodall plays a Newton-ridiculing, mathlete determined to find a pattern in prime numbers. Cracking the code to prime numbers, figures only divisible by one and itself ...

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

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 ...

This is the amount of time Steve Thompson has been toying with the idea of “Prime Target.” Thompson came across a photograph of an ancient Babylonian tablet in a math textbook in the early 1990s, when ...

A post-graduate mathematics student discovers an effort being made to destroy his work in finding a pattern in prime numbers that would allow him to access every computer in the world.