Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. ... Then he came up with a prime that was not on the original list to create a contradiction.

A Prime Numbers Study Is Stirring Up Controversy; This has pushed mathematicians—including Ken Ono from the University of Virginia—to continue exploring the frontiers of prime numbers.

In the Middle Ages, Arab mathematicians advanced the Greeks' theory of prime numbers, referred to as hasam numbers during this time. The Persian mathematician Kamal al-Din al-Farisi formulated the ...