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.

In 2017, however, a developer named Mihai Preda designed an open-source program called GpuOwl to continue the Mersenne prime research through these muc-improved machines.

The discovery of the largest prime number ever found has just been announced to the world. 2 136,279,841 -1, known as M136279841, was found by amateur “prime-hunter” Luke Durant on October 11 ...

New work attacks a long-standing barrier to understanding how prime numbers are distributed.

Prime numbers are crucial for tech like RSA encryption, so understanding them from every angle is essential for maximum security.

The largest known prime number has been discovered, smashing the previous record by more than 16 million digits.