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James Maynard in front of prime numbers

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James Maynard: uncovering the secrets of prime numbers

Prime numbers are the building blocks of mathematics, and yet their distribution is a mystery that has stumped mathematicians for centuries

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Why prime numbers might not be random after all

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Why prime numbers might not be random after all

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Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits

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Mathematicians have found a new way to identify prime numbers

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Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof

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Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the idea of zero

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How the history of maths is much more diverse than you think

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How the history of maths is much more diverse than you think

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Mathematicians calculate 42-digit number after decades of trying

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Mathematicians calculate 42-digit number after decades of trying

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Ultra-fast random number generator uses quantum fluctuations

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Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible

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Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible

Our laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics. But maths itself is only as dependable as the axioms it is built on, and we have to assume those axioms are true

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Baffling 500-page ABC maths proof to be published after eight-year row

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Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

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Number-crunchers set new record for cracking online encryption keys

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Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

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