Prime numbers are absolutely essential to modern computer security -- and, possibly, to communicating with alien life forms. Here's how they work.

The quest to find more prime numbers may seem frivolous, but they hold practical applications as well, such as the generation of public key cryptography algorithms, hash tables, and as random ...

Ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes devised a way to find prime numbers PRIME numbers may have been studied for over 2000 years, but there is always something new to learn. A method for ...

The established research on this test method—as well as the distribution of prime numbers—assured them that they’d find a prime within a reasonable time frame.

In 2017, Zapata Computing spun out of Harvard to develop quantum software and algorithms for business and they have received over $26 million in funding.

Physics Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number Discovering giant prime numbers involves laborious trial and error, and they are of little use when they are found.