An odd new paper without peer review claims prime numbers have "genes," "roots," and “offspring." Prime numbers are essential to modern life because they underpin all of encryption. What is written ...

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 ...

In this thread I had some naive questions about Goldbach's conjecture. Since that thread I've read more of How To Prove It, and was wondering if there was a universally agreed upon definition of a ...