You reach into your wallet, grab what seems like an ordinary dollar bill for your morning coffee, completely unaware that the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Here's the thing: you probably toss dollar bills around without a second glance. Most people do. Yet somewhere in that crumpled stack of singles in your wallet, you might be holding hundreds or even ...

About a year ago, the theoretical chemist Salvatore Torquato met with the number theorist Matthew de Courcy-Ireland to explain that he had done something highly unorthodox with prime numbers, those ...