Prime numbers

A year after tackling how close together prime number pairs can stay, mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can be.

Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

A virtually unknown researcher has made a great advance in one of mathematics’ oldest problems, the twin primes conjecture.

All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.