Professor Ken Ono from the University of Virginia has made a discovery that could redefine the mathematical understanding of prime numbers.In his study titled “Partitions Detect Primes,” written in ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

Because of this, the team suggests aliens could arrange their planets in sequences that are unlikely to form naturally, such as a prime number sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and so on) or the Fibonacci ...