

However, many mysteries remain to this day. that there is an infinite number of primes. So, they are not just a mathematical curiosity but are actually very useful. Internet trading, with its need for secure financial transactions involving credit card numbers and bank accounts, relies heavily on encrypting algorithms anchored with prime numbers. What's the deal with prime numbers? Prime numbers are those divisible only by 1 and by themselves.

Today I will run through the rest of their list, which touches on some of the more interesting scientific questions out there, both basic and applied.ġ1. Last week I presented my take on 10 of the 20 most important questions in science, a list at the heart of a book by Mun Keat Looi, Hayley Birch and Colin Stuart titled The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns. Expect amazing discoveries as explorers document more and more of this unseen realm. Oceans, and the innards of Earth itself, are the final frontiers of our planet.
