As the Ishango bone, the Plimpton 322 tablet and other artifacts throughout history display, prime numbers have fascinated and captivated people throughout history. Today, prime numbers and their ...

“It depends on the application,” he says. There are other sieves or algorithms to identify prime numbers. But Helfgott notes the sieve of Eratosthenes is different in that it also can work ...

A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only ... has devised the first quantum algorithm to count primes. Quantum computers should be faster than ordinary ones ...