There is an infinite amount of prime numbers, but here are 16 of them Mathematicians have spent millennia trying to understand prime numbers – those only divisible by themselves and 1 - but so ...

MATHEMATICIANS have spent millennia trying to understand prime numbers – those only divisible by themselves and 1 – but so far no one has discovered a formula for all of them. Now ...

Two mathematicians have found a strange pattern in prime numbers — showing that the numbers are not distributed as randomly as theorists often assume.

For example, traditional computers may create encryption based on the result of multiplying two large prime numbers together, generating a seemingly random number.