Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

The mathematician is among three Massachusetts scholars who were awarded the 'genius' grant — $800,000 over five years.

In Cork in the early 1990s Stefan Klincewicz spotted a flaw in the Irish national lottery and put his prodigious mathematical ...