The Never-ending Quest for Enormous Prime Numbers

The ongoing search for ever-larger prime numbers continues apace. Primes are the atoms of arithmetic: every whole number is a unique product of primes. For example, 21 is the product of primes 3 and 7, while 23 is itself prime. The primes play a central role in pure mathematics, in the field of number theory, … Continue reading The Never-ending Quest for Enormous Prime Numbers →