Prime number the 1970s, mathematicians and physicists have speculated that the zeros of the Riemann zeta function are connected to the energy levels of quantum systems. Prime numbers are also significant in quantum information science, thanks to mathematical structures such as mutually unbiased bases and symmetric informationally complete positive-operator-valued measures. The evolutionary strategy used by cicadas of the genus "Magicicada" makes use of prime numbers. These insects spend most of their lives as grubs underground. They only pupate and then emerge from their burrows after 7, 13 or 17 years, at which point they fly about, breed, and then die after a
Prime number theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions as a special case. In the theory of finite groups the Sylow theorems imply that, if a power of a prime number formula_195 divides the order of a group, then it has a subgroup of order formula_195. By Lagrange's theorem, any group of prime order is a cyclic group, and by the Burnside theorem any group whose order is divisible by only two primes is solvable. For a long time, number theory in general, and the study of prime numbers in particular, was seen as the canonical example of pure mathematics, with no applications