Mr Durant’s attempt required the use of thousands of graphics processing units spread across 24 data centres in 17 countries. The amateur mathematician found the new largest prime number dubbed ...

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background since distant grade school days. However, for Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer ...

The popular fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering has a new card related to prime numbers. Now fans are trying to use it to tackle one of the biggest problems in mathematics ...

A new prime number has been discovered that is more than 16 million digits larger than the largest prime number ever found. The number is 2^136279841-1, which is 41,024,320 decimal digits and ...

The amateur mathematician found the new largest prime number dubbed “M136279841”, calculated by multiplying together 136,279,841 twos, and then subtracting 1.