You must have learnt about prime numbers in Class 4 or 5. Want to recall it? So, prime numbers are those numbers which are only divisible by 1 and themselves. They do not have any other factors ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked to ...

On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a ...