Each time you make a purchase online, your credit card number is kept safe using the power of prime numbers. Cryptography is the study of coding and sending secret messages. The idea is to construct a ...

Prime numbers are positive integers greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and themselves. These numbers are important in many areas of mathematics, including number theory, cryptography, ...

On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd. This hypothesis, first made in 1968, has recently been proven by ...

Unravel the mystery behind mathematicians' fascination with prime numbers and explore the significance of these unique mathematical entities in the world of numbers.

In our data-driven society, it’s imperative to protect confidential and personal data. Cryptographer Thomas Attema conducts groundbreaking mathematical research in the field of multi-party computation ...

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...

Prime numbers are one of the most basic topics of study in the branch of mathematics called number theory. Primes are numbers that can only be evenly divided by themselves and 1. For example, 7 is a ...

Digitally delicate prime numbers become composite with this one weird trick. Math researchers proved these primes exist using the bucket proof method. There are no known examples so far, but ...

[attach id="634803" size="medium" align="right"]The 2,160-bit public key, in hexadecimal, of a local website that employs the RSA algorithm to encrypt its data. As ...

In an ingenious Reddit post this week, user Gedanke shared an image of a “Gaussian Prime that looks like Gauss.” That’s it up there, in all its glory. So who’s the guy in the picture? Carl Friedrich ...