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Science News
June 5, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Priming Upward The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) continues to unearth new Mersenne primes.   |
Science News
March 5, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Primal Surge Last month saw the discovery of the 42nd known Mersenne prime, the largest prime yet identified... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
January 14, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Team Mersenne A Central Missouri State University computer identified the 43rd Mersenne prime, setting the record for the largest known prime number. This behemoth, 2 30402457 - 1, runs to a whopping 9,152,052 decimal digits. |
InternetNews
December 28, 2005
Sharon Gaudin |
Grid Discovers Largest Known Prime Number Using an international grid of about 70,000 computers, researchers this month discovered the largest known prime number. |
Science News
January 11, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Remarkable Dearth of Primes The pursuit of prime numbers -- integers evenly divisible only by themselves and 1 -- can lead to all sorts of curious results and unexpected patterns. In some instances, you may even encounter a mysterious absence of primes. |
Science News
March 1, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Cracking Fermat Numbers Fermat numbers have what mathematicians sometimes describe as a "beautiful mathematical form," involving powers of 2. They were of interest 400 years ago and are now the subject of a wide-ranging worldwide computer search. |
Science News
August 27, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Primes, Palindromes, and Pyramids Many questions about palidromic prime pyramids remain open. Is there a better way than exhaustive search for finding the tallest pyramids with fixed step sizes? Can you prove that fixed step size pyramids are finite? |
Science News
January 18, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Perfect Collaboration Together, Euclid of Alexandria (c325-c265 BC) and Leonard Euler (1707-1783), born in Switzerland and at various times resident in St. Petersburg and Berlin, collaborated on proving an interesting result in number theory -- without the benefit of e-mail or time travel. |
Science News
July 16, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Closing the Gap on Twin Primes Euclid proved that the set of primes is infinite in size more than 2000 years ago, but no one has yet proved whether there is an infinite number of twin primes, or pairs of primes that have a difference of two. There's now hope that that matter will finally be resolved. |
Science News
July 29, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Names for Numbers Recreational mathematics offers a vast playing field for amateur and professional mathematicians alike. Named numbers, such as Smiths, have all sorts of intriguing properties. |
Science News
April 24, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Progressive Primes In one step toward elucidating certain primal mysteries, two mathematicians have now apparently proved that the population of primes contains an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions. |
Science News
August 28, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
More Progressive Primes In July, Markus Frind, Paul Jobling, and Paul Underwood announced that they had discovered the first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression. This surpasses the previous record of 22 primes in arithmetic progression, set in 1993. |
Science News
June 2, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Twins Although most mathematicians believe that there are infinitely many twin primes, no one has yet proved this conjecture to be true. Indeed, the twin prime conjecture is considered one of the major unsolved problems in number theory... |
Science News
May 4, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Spirals There is truly not only mystery but also beauty in the distribution of prime numbers... |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Amazon's Prime Day Sales Broke Black Friday Records Yesterday's much-vaunted Prime Day -- which coupled a P.T. Barnum-style marketing blitz with a discount arms race -- apparently went very, very well for Amazon. |
National Defense
August 2007
Grace Jean |
Overlooked Business Model Could Benefit Small Firms Suppose a small business has produced a technology that will help troops fighting in Iraq, contract lawyers say it's better to sell off the business unit that developed the product. |
Chemistry World
October 19, 2015
Philippa Matthews |
BMS agrees $1.7bn immuno-oncology collaboration Bristol-Myers Squibb has entered into a worldwide license and collaboration with Five Prime Therapeutics to develop and commercialize Five Prime's colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) antibodies. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 14, 2006
Paul Allen |
Prime Time for Primes Once an esoteric business controlled by three players, the prime brokerage business has become a hotbed of competition as rival banks and brokers have sought to profit from the hedge fund explosion. |
AskMen.com
Terry Baldwin |
Top 10: Views Our top finishers include a well-rounded bunch of timeless sites and some lesser-known spots -- all worth a look. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Brad Stone |
What's in Amazon's Box? Instant Gratification Customers love Prime, Amazon's two-day shipping program. Now rivals such as Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and J.C. Penney are copying it |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Your computer can fight AIDS A PC can do more in its spare time than look for aliens. It can also save lives. Even while you're reading this Web page, you could be researching new AIDS treatments, or rather, your computer could... |
