Twin Prime Numbers: The prime numbers with only one composite number between them are called twin prime numbers or twin primes. For example, 3 and 5, 5 and 7, 11 and 13, 17 and 29, etc.

Prime numbers can be sorted into different types. In 1202, Leonardo Fibonacci introduced in his book “Liber Abaci: Book of Calculation” prime numbers of the form (2 p – 1) where p is also prime.

Similarly, a clay tablet from 1800 B.C.E. inscribed with Babylonian numbers describes a number system built on prime numbers. As the Ishango bone, the Plimpton 322 tablet and other artifacts ...

Prime numbers are often called the building blocks of math because every whole number greater than 1 is either a prime or the product of a unique collection of primes.