For the second breakthrough, Tiep worked with Robert Guralnick of the University of Southern California and Michael Larsen of ...

A number is only considered a Mersenne prime if it can be written in the form 2ᵖ-1. Unlike other large prime numbers used ...

Prime number enthusiasts, looking for larger and larger numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves ... etching their name into the scrolls of math history. The latest entry comes from ...

“We are here to really summarize the state of mathematics at the end of one century and to describe the problems for the young people to work on in a new century.” The project that would ...