Mathematicians are stunned by the discovery that prime numbers are pickier than previously thought. The find suggests number theorists need to be a little more careful when exploring the vast ...

New Delhi: In a development that has stirred the mathematical world, two researchers have taken a route to unlock hidden patterns in prime numbers – one that blends old wisdom with unexpected tools.

A new program can find and compare relationships in complicated data without having to be asked specific queries Are there subtle patterns lurking in data that can foretell of a coming financial ...

Gain an understanding of what number sequences and number patterns are and how a list of numbers is linked together by a rule.

What Ono and his team have now discovered is that partitions —a concept that counts the ways a number can be broken down into sums of smaller integers— contain hidden patterns capable of revealing ...