Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

And if we don’t know where to find them, there’s no easy way to generate a prime number from scratch. Rahul Santhanam has worked to create better algorithms to find arbitrarily large prime numbers — a ...

How to discover your own prime number This month, GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, announced the discovery of the largest known prime number: 2^74,207,281-1.

Write a number as a product of its prime factors To be able to find factors and write a number as a product of prime factors, having knowledge of powers and indices is useful. Remember: To find ...

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...