The DVLA has taken action to ban a series of number plates - and some of the choices are hard to understand at first glance. The banned plates include apparently 'anti-British' plates and others ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes—numbers that are only divisible by ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked ...