Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for centuries with their unpredictable and seemingly random distribution. In a groundbreaking preprint study, researchers devised a novel method that ...

There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Maynard analyzed a number called the “level of distribution” that captures how quickly prime remainders become evenly distributed into buckets (sometimes with reference to particular types of sieves).