Dec 16, 2017
"Prime numbers are the indivisible numbers. They’re like building blocks from which we make other numbers.”
What is the importance of prime numbers, not only in mathematics but also in society? Vicky Neale takes a stab at answering this key question, as well as why the number one is not considered a prime number, the infinite possibilities of prime numbers, and the recent progress towards proving the famous Twin Primes Conjecture.
GIF: The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a simple algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a specified integer. It was created in the 3rd century BC by Eratosthenes, an ancient Greek mathematician. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.