For centuries prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help them identify primes and the way they are distributed among other ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges from disorder. In February, Sah and Sawhney announced yet another joint accomplishment. With James Leng, a graduate ...

Sarah C. Campbell, photos by Sarah C. and Richard P. Campbell. Boyds Mills, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62091-627-8 The husband-and-wife team behind Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (2010) ...