Sept. 6 (UPI) --According to a new study, the distribution of prime numbers is similar to the positioning of atoms inside some crystalline materials. When scientists at Princeton University compared ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

Mathematicians have taken a step forward in understanding patterns within the primes, numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. According to the new work, the population of prime numbers contains an ...

A pair of mathematicians appear to have discovered that there are unexpected patterns in the prime number sequence — previously thought to behave more randomly. A prime is a number only divisible by 1 ...

Las Vegas(KLAS)-The new drama “Prime Target” features a brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks (played by Leo Woodall), who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding ...

Today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m., the Exploratorium in San Francisco will be celebrating one of the most important numbers of mathematics: pi. Unchanging, if hard to pin down, it expresses the ratio ...

Chemist Reveals a Surprising Prime Number Pattern | RealClearScienceAbout a year ago, the theoretical chemist Salvatore Torquato met with the number theorist Matthew de Courcy-Ireland to explain that ...

What would be the best way for an advanced alien civilisation to make its presence known across the galaxy? It might be to make the planets in its star system dance in mathematical sequence. Many ...