A simple program is always the best place to start when you learn a new concept. This first Java recursion example simply prints out the digits from one to the selected number in reverse order.

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography.

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

Contemplating partition The first simple formula has been found for calculating how many ways a number can be created by adding together other numbers, solving a puzzle that captivated the ...

Is there a pattern behind prime numbers? Networks that reproduce the mathematical relationships between primes and non-primes could tell us ...