Two academics have shocked themselves and the world of mathematics by discovering a pattern in prime numbers. Primes - numbers greater than 1 that are divisible only by themselves and 1 – are ...
Today’s puzzles celebrate prime numbers – those beguiling numbers that divide only by themselves and 1, a sequence that begins 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and carries on forever. The first question was ...
If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. How was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules? – Bianca, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney ...