Prime Number Resources and Information
Prime number basics
- What is a prime number?
- The first 1000 primes
- How many primes are there?
- Frequently Asked Questions about Primes
How to prove that a large number is prime
- Finding prime numbers - an introduction
- The quick tests
- The classical tests
- General purpose tests
- Amdahl 6's method for finding large non-Mersenne primes
Largest known primes
- Who was Marin Mersenne?
- What is a Mersenne number?
- What is a Mersenne prime?
- The history of Mersenne primes
- Digits & English names of known Mersenne primes
- Will Edgington's Mersenne page
- Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and GIMPS status