Infinity down, only 69,999,997 to go. New research has proved that prime numbers don't just disappear as numbers get larger — instead, there is an infinite number of prime numbers separated by a ...

A new proof has debunked a conspiracy that mathematicians feared might haunt the number line. In doing so, it has given them another set of tools for understanding arithmetic’s fundamental building ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Prime numbers—those that can only be divided by themselves and one—bear a mystery. Why do primes tend to pair up? Five and seven, for example, are ...

The numbers $2N = 2(2)1000000$ are checked to determine if they can be written as the sum of two twin primes. Thirty-three numbers are found that cannot be so represented; they are all less than 5000.