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

• The largest known primes
• A brief history of the largest known prime

Mersenne 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

Prime number software

• GIMPS free software
• Elliptic Curve Primality Proving software
• Calc
• lucas.cal

Miscellaneous prime links

• Cooperative computation award news
• Ways to visualize prime numbers
• Lists of primes
• Prime number page glossary
• Search the prime pages
• Prime Curios!