Mathematicians put their own spin on the search for rare prime numbers

Friday, March 28, 2014 - 09:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Most of us learned what a prime number is in our early days of math class: An integer divisible only by itself and by one. But what you may not have realized is the search for the rarest of them is an international one, with a local effort led in an unconventional way by two Indiana State University professors.

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