It's all about the polynomials, baby. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mathematicians have uncovered a big new piece of evidence ...

“We’ve been stuck and running out of ideas on the problem for a long time, so it’s automatically exciting when anyone comes up with new insights,” said James Maynard, a mathematician at the University ...

The numbers $2N = 2(2)1000000$ are checked to determine if they can be written as the sum of two twin primes. Thirty-three numbers are found that cannot be so represented; they are all less than 5000.

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Prime numbers—those that can only be divided by themselves and one—bear a mystery. Why do primes tend to pair up? Five and seven, for example, are ...