Balanced primes

Primes with equal-sized prime gaps above and below them, so that they are equal to the arithmetic mean of the nearest primes above and below.

• 5, 53, 157, 173, 211, 257, 263, 373, 563, 593, 607, 653, 733, 947, 977, 1103, 1123, 1187, 1223, 1367, 1511, 1747, 1753, 1907, 2287, 2417, 2677, 2903, 2963, 3307, 3313, 3637, 3733, 4013, 4409, 4457, 4597, 4657, 4691, 4993, 5107, 5113, 5303, 5387, 5393 (OEIS: A006562).

Bell primes

Primes that are the number of partitions of a set with n members.

2, 5, 877, 27644437, 35742549198872617291353508656626642567, 359334085968622831041960188598043661065388726959079837. The next term has 6,539 digits. (OEIS: A051131)

Chen primes

Where p is prime and p+2 is either a prime or semiprime.

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 47, 53, 59, 67, 71, 83, 89, 101, 107, 109, 113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 157, 167, 179, 181, 191, 197, 199, 211, 227, 233, 239, 251, 257, 263, 269, 281, 293, 307, 311, 317, 337, 347, 353, 359, 379, 389, 401, 409 (OEIS: A109611)

Circular primes

A circular prime number is a number that remains prime on any cyclic rotation of its digits (in base 10).

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 31, 37, 71, 73, 79, 97, 113, 131, 197, 199, 311, 337, 373, 719, 733, 919, 971, 991, 1193, 1931, 3119, 3779, 7793, 7937, 9311, 9377, 11939, 19391, 19937, 37199, 39119, 71993, 91193, 93719, 93911, 99371, 193939, 199933, 319993, 331999, 391939, 393919, 919393, 933199, 939193, 939391, 993319, 999331 (OEIS: A068652)

Some sources only list the smallest prime in each cycle, for example, listing 13, but omitting 31 (OEIS really calls this sequence circular primes, but not the above sequence):

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 37, 79, 113, 197, 199, 337, 1193, 3779, 11939, 19937, 193939, 199933, 1111111111111111111, 11111111111111111111111 (OEIS: A016114)

All repunit primes are circular.

Cluster primes

A cluster prime is a prime p such that every even natural number k ≤ p − 3 is the difference of two primes not exceeding p.

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, ... (OEIS: A038134)

All odd primes between 3 and 89, inclusive, are cluster primes. The first 10 primes that are not cluster primes are:

2, 97, 127, 149, 191, 211, 223, 227, 229, 251.

Cousin primes

Where (p, p + 4) are both prime.

(3, 7), (7, 11), (13, 17), (19, 23), (37, 41), (43, 47), (67, 71), (79, 83), (97, 101), (103, 107), (109, 113), (127, 131), (163, 167), (193, 197), (223, 227), (229, 233), (277, 281) (OEIS: A023200, OEIS: A046132)

Cuban primes

Of the form ${\displaystyle {\tfrac {x^{3}-y^{3}}{x-y}}}$ where x = y + 1.

7, 19, 37, 61, 127, 271, 331, 397, 547, 631, 919, 1657, 1801, 1951, 2269, 2437, 2791, 3169, 3571, 4219, 4447, 5167, 5419, 6211, 7057, 7351, 8269, 9241, 10267, 11719, 12097, 13267, 13669, 16651, 19441, 19927, 22447, 23497, 24571, 25117, 26227, 27361, 33391, 35317 (OEIS: A002407)

Of the form ${\displaystyle {\tfrac {x^{3}-y^{3}}{x-y}}}$ where x = y + 2.

13, 109, 193, 433, 769, 1201, 1453, 2029, 3469, 3889, 4801, 10093, 12289, 13873, 18253, 20173, 21169, 22189, 28813, 37633, 43201, 47629, 60493, 63949, 65713, 69313, 73009, 76801, 84673, 106033, 108301, 112909, 115249 (OEIS: A002648)

Cullen primes

Of the form n×2ⁿ + 1.

3, 393050634124102232869567034555427371542904833 (OEIS: A050920)

Dihedral primes

Primes that remain prime when read upside down or mirrored in a seven-segment display.

2, 5, 11, 101, 181, 1181, 1811, 18181, 108881, 110881, 118081, 120121, 121021, 121151, 150151, 151051, 151121, 180181, 180811, 181081 (OEIS: A134996)

Eisenstein primes without imaginary part

Eisenstein integers that are irreducible and real numbers (primes of the form 3n − 1).

2, 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, 41, 47, 53, 59, 71, 83, 89, 101, 107, 113, 131, 137, 149, 167, 173, 179, 191, 197, 227, 233, 239, 251, 257, 263, 269, 281, 293, 311, 317, 347, 353, 359, 383, 389, 401 (OEIS: A003627)

Emirps

Primes that become a different prime when their decimal digits are reversed. The name "emirp" is obtained by reversing the word "prime".

13, 17, 31, 37, 71, 73, 79, 97, 107, 113, 149, 157, 167, 179, 199, 311, 337, 347, 359, 389, 701, 709, 733, 739, 743, 751, 761, 769, 907, 937, 941, 953, 967, 971, 983, 991 (OEIS: A006567)

Euclid primes

Of the form p_n# + 1 (a subset of primorial primes).

3, 7, 31, 211, 2311, 200560490131 (OEIS: A018239^[5])

Euler irregular primes

A prime ${\displaystyle p}$ that divides Euler number ${\displaystyle E_{2n}}$ for some ${\displaystyle 0\leq 2n\leq p-3}$.

19, 31, 43, 47, 61, 67, 71, 79, 101, 137, 139, 149, 193, 223, 241, 251, 263, 277, 307, 311, 349, 353, 359, 373, 379, 419, 433, 461, 463, 491, 509, 541, 563, 571, 577, 587 (OEIS: A120337)

Factorial primes

Of the form n! − 1 or n! + 1.

2, 3, 5, 7, 23, 719, 5039, 39916801, 479001599, 87178291199, 10888869450418352160768000001, 265252859812191058636308479999999, 263130836933693530167218012159999999, 8683317618811886495518194401279999999 (OEIS: A088054)

Fermat primes

Of the form 2²ⁿ + 1.

3, 5, 17, 257, 65537 (OEIS: A019434)

As of August 2019 these are the only known Fermat primes, and conjecturally the only Fermat primes. The probability of the existence of another Fermat prime is less than one in a billion.^[6]

Fibonacci primes

Primes in the Fibonacci sequence F₀ = 0, F₁ = 1, F_n = F_n−1 + F_n−2.

2, 3, 5, 13, 89, 233, 1597, 28657, 514229, 433494437, 2971215073, 99194853094755497, 1066340417491710595814572169, 19134702400093278081449423917 (OEIS: A005478)

Fortunate primes

Fortunate numbers that are prime (it has been conjectured they all are).

3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 23, 37, 47, 59, 61, 67, 71, 79, 89, 101, 103, 107, 109, 127, 151, 157, 163, 167, 191, 197, 199, 223, 229, 233, 239, 271, 277, 283, 293, 307, 311, 313, 331, 353, 373, 379, 383, 397 (OEIS: A046066)

Gaussian primes

Prime elements of the Gaussian integers; equivalently, primes of the form 4n + 3.

3, 7, 11, 19, 23, 31, 43, 47, 59, 67, 71, 79, 83, 103, 107, 127, 131, 139, 151, 163, 167, 179, 191, 199, 211, 223, 227, 239, 251, 263, 271, 283, 307, 311, 331, 347, 359, 367, 379, 383, 419, 431, 439, 443, 463, 467, 479, 487, 491, 499, 503 (OEIS: A002145)

Good primes

Primes p_n for which p_n² > p_n−i p_n+i for all 1 ≤ i ≤ n−1, where p_n is the nth prime.

5, 11, 17, 29, 37, 41, 53, 59, 67, 71, 97, 101, 127, 149, 179, 191, 223, 227, 251, 257, 269, 307 (OEIS: A028388)

Happy primes

Happy numbers that are prime.

7, 13, 19, 23, 31, 79, 97, 103, 109, 139, 167, 193, 239, 263, 293, 313, 331, 367, 379, 383, 397, 409, 487, 563, 617, 653, 673, 683, 709, 739, 761, 863, 881, 907, 937, 1009, 1033, 1039, 1093 (OEIS: A035497)

Harmonic primes

Primes p for which there are no solutions to H_k ≡ 0 (mod p) and H_k ≡ −ω_p (mod p) for 1 ≤ k ≤ p−2, where H_k denotes the k-th harmonic number and ω_p denotes the Wolstenholme quotient.^[7]

5, 13, 17, 23, 41, 67, 73, 79, 107, 113, 139, 149, 157, 179, 191, 193, 223, 239, 241, 251, 263, 277, 281, 293, 307, 311, 317, 331, 337, 349 (OEIS: A092101)

Higgs primes for squares

Primes p for which p − 1 divides the square of the product of all earlier terms.

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 79, 101, 107, 127, 131, 139, 149, 151, 157, 173, 181, 191, 197, 199, 211, 223, 229, 263, 269, 277, 283, 311, 317, 331, 347, 349 (OEIS: A007459)

Highly cototient primes

Primes that are a cototient more often than any integer below it except 1.

2, 23, 47, 59, 83, 89, 113, 167, 269, 389, 419, 509, 659, 839, 1049, 1259, 1889 (OEIS: A105440)

Home primes

For n ≥ 2, write the prime factorization of n in base 10 and concatenate the factors; iterate until a prime is reached.

2, 3, 211, 5, 23, 7, 3331113965338635107, 311, 773, 11, 223, 13, 13367, 1129, 31636373, 17, 233, 19, 3318308475676071413, 37, 211, 23, 331319, 773, 3251, 13367, 227, 29, 547, 31, 241271, 311, 31397, 1129, 71129, 37, 373, 313, 3314192745739, 41, 379, 43, 22815088913, 3411949, 223, 47, 6161791591356884791277 (OEIS: A037274)

Irregular primes

Odd primes p that divide the class number of the p-th cyclotomic field.

37, 59, 67, 101, 103, 131, 149, 157, 233, 257, 263, 271, 283, 293, 307, 311, 347, 353, 379, 389, 401, 409, 421, 433, 461, 463, 467, 491, 523, 541, 547, 557, 577, 587, 593, 607, 613 (OEIS: A000928)

Isolated primes

Primes p such that neither p − 2 nor p + 2 is prime.

2, 23, 37, 47, 53, 67, 79, 83, 89, 97, 113, 127, 131, 157, 163, 167, 173, 211, 223, 233, 251, 257, 263, 277, 293, 307, 317, 331, 337, 353, 359, 367, 373, 379, 383, 389, 397, 401, 409, 439, 443, 449, 457, 467, 479, 487, 491, 499, 503, 509, 541, 547, 557, 563, 577, 587, 593, 607, 613, 631, 647, 653, 673, 677, 683, 691, 701, 709, 719, 727, 733, 739, 743, 751, 757, 761, 769, 773, 787, 797, 839, 853, 863, 877, 887, 907, 911, 919, 929, 937, 941, 947, 953, 967, 971, 977, 983, 991, 997 (OEIS: A007510)

Leyland primes

Of the form x^y + y^x, with 1 < x < y.

17, 593, 32993, 2097593, 8589935681, 59604644783353249, 523347633027360537213687137, 43143988327398957279342419750374600193 (OEIS: A094133)

Long primes

Primes p for which, in a given base b, ${\displaystyle {\frac {b^{p-1}-1}{p}}}$ gives a cyclic number. They are also called full reptend primes. Primes p for base 10:

7, 17, 19, 23, 29, 47, 59, 61, 97, 109, 113, 131, 149, 167, 179, 181, 193, 223, 229, 233, 257, 263, 269, 313, 337, 367, 379, 383, 389, 419, 433, 461, 487, 491, 499, 503, 509, 541, 571, 577, 593 (OEIS: A001913)

Lucas primes

Primes in the Lucas number sequence L₀ = 2, L₁ = 1, L_n = L_n−1 + L_n−2.

2,^[9] 3, 7, 11, 29, 47, 199, 521, 2207, 3571, 9349, 3010349, 54018521, 370248451, 6643838879, 119218851371, 5600748293801, 688846502588399, 32361122672259149 (OEIS: A005479)

Lucky primes

Lucky numbers that are prime.

3, 7, 13, 31, 37, 43, 67, 73, 79, 127, 151, 163, 193, 211, 223, 241, 283, 307, 331, 349, 367, 409, 421, 433, 463, 487, 541, 577, 601, 613, 619, 631, 643, 673, 727, 739, 769, 787, 823, 883, 937, 991, 997 (OEIS: A031157)

Mersenne primes

Of the form 2ⁿ − 1.

3, 7, 31, 127, 8191, 131071, 524287, 2147483647, 2305843009213693951, 618970019642690137449562111, 162259276829213363391578010288127, 170141183460469231731687303715884105727 (OEIS: A000668)

As of 2018, there are 51 known Mersenne primes. The 13th, 14th, and 51st have respectively 157, 183, and 24,862,048 digits.

As of 2018, this class of prime numbers also contains the largest known prime: M_82589933, the 51st known Mersenne prime.

Mills primes

Of the form ⌊θ³ⁿ⌋, where θ is Mills' constant. This form is prime for all positive integers n.

2, 11, 1361, 2521008887, 16022236204009818131831320183 (OEIS: A051254)

Minimal primes

Primes for which there is no shorter sub-sequence of the decimal digits that form a prime. There are exactly 26 minimal primes:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 19, 41, 61, 89, 409, 449, 499, 881, 991, 6469, 6949, 9001, 9049, 9649, 9949, 60649, 666649, 946669, 60000049, 66000049, 66600049 (OEIS: A071062)

Newman–Shanks–Williams primes

Newman–Shanks–Williams numbers that are prime.

7, 41, 239, 9369319, 63018038201, 489133282872437279, 19175002942688032928599 (OEIS: A088165)

Non-generous primes

Primes p for which the least positive primitive root is not a primitive root of p². Three such primes are known; it is not known whether there are more.^[13]

2, 40487, 6692367337 (OEIS: A055578)

Palindromic primes

Primes that remain the same when their decimal digits are read backwards.

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 131, 151, 181, 191, 313, 353, 373, 383, 727, 757, 787, 797, 919, 929, 10301, 10501, 10601, 11311, 11411, 12421, 12721, 12821, 13331, 13831, 13931, 14341, 14741 (OEIS: A002385)

Palindromic wing primes

Primes of the form ${\displaystyle {\frac {a{\big (}10^{m}-1{\big )}}{9}}\pm b\times 10^{\frac {m-1}{2}}}$ with ${\displaystyle 0\leq a\pm b<10}$.^[14] This means all digits except the middle digit are equal.

101, 131, 151, 181, 191, 313, 353, 373, 383, 727, 757, 787, 797, 919, 929, 11311, 11411, 33533, 77377, 77477, 77977, 1114111, 1117111, 3331333, 3337333, 7772777, 7774777, 7778777, 111181111, 111191111, 777767777, 77777677777, 99999199999 (OEIS: A077798)

Partition primes

Partition function values that are prime.

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 17977, 10619863, 6620830889, 80630964769, 228204732751, 1171432692373, 1398341745571, 10963707205259, 15285151248481, 10657331232548839, 790738119649411319, 18987964267331664557 (OEIS: A049575)

Pell primes

Primes in the Pell number sequence P₀ = 0, P₁ = 1, P_n = 2P_n−1 + P_n−2.

2, 5, 29, 5741, 33461, 44560482149, 1746860020068409, 68480406462161287469, 13558774610046711780701, 4125636888562548868221559797461449 (OEIS: A086383)

Permutable primes

Any permutation of the decimal digits is a prime.

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 31, 37, 71, 73, 79, 97, 113, 131, 199, 311, 337, 373, 733, 919, 991, 1111111111111111111, 11111111111111111111111 (OEIS: A003459)

Perrin primes

Primes in the Perrin number sequence P(0) = 3, P(1) = 0, P(2) = 2, P(n) = P(n−2) + P(n−3).

2, 3, 5, 7, 17, 29, 277, 367, 853, 14197, 43721, 1442968193, 792606555396977, 187278659180417234321, 66241160488780141071579864797 (OEIS: A074788)

Pierpont primes

Of the form 2^u3^v + 1 for some integers u,v ≥ 0.

These are also class 1- primes.

2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 37, 73, 97, 109, 163, 193, 257, 433, 487, 577, 769, 1153, 1297, 1459, 2593, 2917, 3457, 3889, 10369, 12289, 17497, 18433, 39367, 52489, 65537, 139969, 147457 (OEIS: A005109)

Pillai primes

Primes p for which there exist n > 0 such that p divides n! + 1 and n does not divide p − 1.

23, 29, 59, 61, 67, 71, 79, 83, 109, 137, 139, 149, 193, 227, 233, 239, 251, 257, 269, 271, 277, 293, 307, 311, 317, 359, 379, 383, 389, 397, 401, 419, 431, 449, 461, 463, 467, 479, 499 (OEIS: A063980)

Primes of the form n⁴ + 1

Of the form n⁴ + 1.^[15][16]

2, 17, 257, 1297, 65537, 160001, 331777, 614657, 1336337, 4477457, 5308417, 8503057, 9834497, 29986577, 40960001, 45212177, 59969537, 65610001, 126247697, 193877777, 303595777, 384160001, 406586897, 562448657, 655360001 (OEIS: A037896)

Primeval primes

Primes for which there are more prime permutations of some or all the decimal digits than for any smaller number.

2, 13, 37, 107, 113, 137, 1013, 1237, 1367, 10079 (OEIS: A119535)

Primorial primes

Of the form p_n# ± 1.

3, 5, 7, 29, 31, 211, 2309, 2311, 30029, 200560490131, 304250263527209, 23768741896345550770650537601358309 (union of OEIS: A057705 and OEIS: A018239^[5])

Proth primes

Of the form k×2ⁿ + 1, with odd k and k < 2ⁿ.

3, 5, 13, 17, 41, 97, 113, 193, 241, 257, 353, 449, 577, 641, 673, 769, 929, 1153, 1217, 1409, 1601, 2113, 2689, 2753, 3137, 3329, 3457, 4481, 4993, 6529, 7297, 7681, 7937, 9473, 9601, 9857 (OEIS: A080076)

Pythagorean primes

Of the form 4n + 1.

5, 13, 17, 29, 37, 41, 53, 61, 73, 89, 97, 101, 109, 113, 137, 149, 157, 173, 181, 193, 197, 229, 233, 241, 257, 269, 277, 281, 293, 313, 317, 337, 349, 353, 373, 389, 397, 401, 409, 421, 433, 449 (OEIS: A002144)

Prime quadruplets

Where (p, p+2, p+6, p+8) are all prime.

(5, 7, 11, 13), (11, 13, 17, 19), (101, 103, 107, 109), (191, 193, 197, 199), (821, 823, 827, 829), (1481, 1483, 1487, 1489), (1871, 1873, 1877, 1879), (2081, 2083, 2087, 2089), (3251, 3253, 3257, 3259), (3461, 3463, 3467, 3469), (5651, 5653, 5657, 5659), (9431, 9433, 9437, 9439) (OEIS: A007530, OEIS: A136720, OEIS: A136721, OEIS: A090258)

Quartan primes

Of the form x⁴ + y⁴, where x,y > 0.

2, 17, 97, 257, 337, 641, 881 (OEIS: A002645)

Ramanujan primes

Integers R_n that are the smallest to give at least n primes from x/2 to x for all x ≥ R_n (all such integers are primes).

2, 11, 17, 29, 41, 47, 59, 67, 71, 97, 101, 107, 127, 149, 151, 167, 179, 181, 227, 229, 233, 239, 241, 263, 269, 281, 307, 311, 347, 349, 367, 373, 401, 409, 419, 431, 433, 439, 461, 487, 491 (OEIS: A104272)

Regular primes

Primes p that do not divide the class number of the p-th cyclotomic field.

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 41, 43, 47, 53, 61, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 107, 109, 113, 127, 137, 139, 151, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, 211, 223, 227, 229, 239, 241, 251, 269, 277, 281 (OEIS: A007703)

Repunit primes

Primes containing only the decimal digit 1.

11, 1111111111111111111 (19 digits), 11111111111111111111111 (23 digits) (OEIS: A004022)

The next have 317, 1031, 49081, 86453, 109297, 270343 digits (OEIS: A004023)

Residue classes of primes

Of the form an + d for fixed integers a and d. Also called primes congruent to d modulo a.

The primes of the form 2n+1 are the odd primes, including all primes other than 2. Some sequences have alternate names: 4n+1 are Pythagorean primes, 4n+3 are the integer Gaussian primes, and 6n+5 are the Eisenstein primes (with 2 omitted). The classes 10n+d (d = 1, 3, 7, 9) are primes ending in the decimal digit d.

2n+1: 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53 (OEIS: A065091)
4n+1: 5, 13, 17, 29, 37, 41, 53, 61, 73, 89, 97, 101, 109, 113, 137 (OEIS: A002144)
4n+3: 3, 7, 11, 19, 23, 31, 43, 47, 59, 67, 71, 79, 83, 103, 107 (OEIS: A002145)
6n+1: 7, 13, 19, 31, 37, 43, 61, 67, 73, 79, 97, 103, 109, 127, 139 (OEIS: A002476)
6n+5: 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, 41, 47, 53, 59, 71, 83, 89, 101, 107, 113 (OEIS: A007528)
8n+1: 17, 41, 73, 89, 97, 113, 137, 193, 233, 241, 257, 281, 313, 337, 353 (OEIS: A007519)
8n+3: 3, 11, 19, 43, 59, 67, 83, 107, 131, 139, 163, 179, 211, 227, 251 (OEIS: A007520)
8n+5: 5, 13, 29, 37, 53, 61, 101, 109, 149, 157, 173, 181, 197, 229, 269 (OEIS: A007521)
8n+7: 7, 23, 31, 47, 71, 79, 103, 127, 151, 167, 191, 199, 223, 239, 263 (OEIS: A007522)
10n+1: 11, 31, 41, 61, 71, 101, 131, 151, 181, 191, 211, 241, 251, 271, 281 (OEIS: A030430)
10n+3: 3, 13, 23, 43, 53, 73, 83, 103, 113, 163, 173, 193, 223, 233, 263 (OEIS: A030431)
10n+7: 7, 17, 37, 47, 67, 97, 107, 127, 137, 157, 167, 197, 227, 257, 277 (OEIS: A030432)
10n+9: 19, 29, 59, 79, 89, 109, 139, 149, 179, 199, 229, 239, 269, 349, 359 (OEIS: A030433)
12n+1: 13, 37, 61, 73, 97, 109, 157, 181, 193, 229, 241, 277, 313, 337, 349 (OEIS: A068228)
12n+5: 5, 17, 29, 41, 53, 89, 101, 113, 137, 149, 173, 197, 233, 257, 269 (OEIS: A040117)
12n+7: 7, 19, 31, 43, 67, 79, 103, 127, 139, 151, 163, 199, 211, 223, 271 (OEIS: A068229)
12n+11: 11, 23, 47, 59, 71, 83, 107, 131, 167, 179, 191, 227, 239, 251, 263 (OEIS: A068231)

Safe primes

Where p and (p−1) / 2 are both prime.

5, 7, 11, 23, 47, 59, 83, 107, 167, 179, 227, 263, 347, 359, 383, 467, 479, 503, 563, 587, 719, 839, 863, 887, 983, 1019, 1187, 1283, 1307, 1319, 1367, 1439, 1487, 1523, 1619, 1823, 1907 (OEIS: A005385)

Self primes in base 10

Primes that cannot be generated by any integer added to the sum of its decimal digits.

3, 5, 7, 31, 53, 97, 211, 233, 277, 367, 389, 457, 479, 547, 569, 613, 659, 727, 839, 883, 929, 1021, 1087, 1109, 1223, 1289, 1447, 1559, 1627, 1693, 1783, 1873 (OEIS: A006378)

Sexy primes

Where (p, p + 6) are both prime.

(5, 11), (7, 13), (11, 17), (13, 19), (17, 23), (23, 29), (31, 37), (37, 43), (41, 47), (47, 53), (53, 59), (61, 67), (67, 73), (73, 79), (83, 89), (97, 103), (101, 107), (103, 109), (107, 113), (131, 137), (151, 157), (157, 163), (167, 173), (173, 179), (191, 197), (193, 199) (OEIS: A023201, OEIS: A046117)

Smarandache–Wellin primes

Primes that are the concatenation of the first n primes written in decimal.

2, 23, 2357 (OEIS: A069151)

The fourth Smarandache-Wellin prime is the 355-digit concatenation of the first 128 primes that end with 719.

Solinas primes

Of the form 2^a ± 2^b ± 1, where 0 < b < a.

3, 5, 7, 11, 13 (OEIS: A165255)

Sophie Germain primes

Where p and 2p + 1 are both prime. A Sophie Germain prime has a corresponding safe prime.

2, 3, 5, 11, 23, 29, 41, 53, 83, 89, 113, 131, 173, 179, 191, 233, 239, 251, 281, 293, 359, 419, 431, 443, 491, 509, 593, 641, 653, 659, 683, 719, 743, 761, 809, 911, 953 (OEIS: A005384)

Stern primes

Primes that are not the sum of a smaller prime and twice the square of a nonzero integer.

2, 3, 17, 137, 227, 977, 1187, 1493 (OEIS: A042978)

As of 2011, these are the only known Stern primes, and possibly the only existing.

Super-primes

Primes with a prime index in the sequence of prime numbers (the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, ... prime).

3, 5, 11, 17, 31, 41, 59, 67, 83, 109, 127, 157, 179, 191, 211, 241, 277, 283, 331, 353, 367, 401, 431, 461, 509, 547, 563, 587, 599, 617, 709, 739, 773, 797, 859, 877, 919, 967, 991 (OEIS: A006450)

Supersingular primes

There are exactly fifteen supersingular primes:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 41, 47, 59, 71 (OEIS: A002267)

Thabit primes

Of the form 3×2ⁿ − 1.

2, 5, 11, 23, 47, 191, 383, 6143, 786431, 51539607551, 824633720831, 26388279066623, 108086391056891903, 55340232221128654847, 226673591177742970257407 (OEIS: A007505)

The primes of the form 3×2ⁿ + 1 are related.

7, 13, 97, 193, 769, 12289, 786433, 3221225473, 206158430209, 6597069766657 (OEIS: A039687)

Prime triplets

Where (p, p+2, p+6) or (p, p+4, p+6) are all prime.

(5, 7, 11), (7, 11, 13), (11, 13, 17), (13, 17, 19), (17, 19, 23), (37, 41, 43), (41, 43, 47), (67, 71, 73), (97, 101, 103), (101, 103, 107), (103, 107, 109), (107, 109, 113), (191, 193, 197), (193, 197, 199), (223, 227, 229), (227, 229, 233), (277, 281, 283), (307, 311, 313), (311, 313, 317), (347, 349, 353) (OEIS: A007529, OEIS: A098414, OEIS: A098415)

Truncatable prime

Twin primes

Where (p, p+2) are both prime.

(3, 5), (5, 7), (11, 13), (17, 19), (29, 31), (41, 43), (59, 61), (71, 73), (101, 103), (107, 109), (137, 139), (149, 151), (179, 181), (191, 193), (197, 199), (227, 229), (239, 241), (269, 271), (281, 283), (311, 313), (347, 349), (419, 421), (431, 433), (461, 463) (OEIS: A001359, OEIS: A006512)

Unique primes

The list of primes p for which the period length of the decimal expansion of 1/p is unique (no other prime gives the same period).

3, 11, 37, 101, 9091, 9901, 333667, 909091, 99990001, 999999000001, 9999999900000001, 909090909090909091, 1111111111111111111, 11111111111111111111111, 900900900900990990990991 (OEIS: A040017)

Wagstaff primes

Of the form (2ⁿ + 1) / 3.

3, 11, 43, 683, 2731, 43691, 174763, 2796203, 715827883, 2932031007403, 768614336404564651, 201487636602438195784363, 845100400152152934331135470251, 56713727820156410577229101238628035243 (OEIS: A000979)

Values of n:

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 31, 43, 61, 79, 101, 127, 167, 191, 199, 313, 347, 701, 1709, 2617, 3539, 5807, 10501, 10691, 11279, 12391, 14479, 42737, 83339, 95369, 117239, 127031, 138937, 141079, 267017, 269987, 374321 (OEIS: A000978)

Wall–Sun–Sun primes

A prime p > 5, if p² divides the Fibonacci number ${\displaystyle F_{p-\left({\frac {p}{5}}\right)}}$, where the Legendre symbol ${\displaystyle \left({\frac {p}{5}}\right)}$ is defined as

${\displaystyle \left({\frac {p}{5}}\right)={\begin{cases}1&{\textrm {if}}\;p\equiv \pm 1{\pmod {5}}\\-1&{\textrm {if}}\;p\equiv \pm 2{\pmod {5}}.\end{cases}}}$

As of 2018, no Wall-Sun-Sun primes are known.

Weakly prime numbers

Primes that having any one of their (base 10) digits changed to any other value will always result in a composite number.

294001, 505447, 584141, 604171, 971767, 1062599, 1282529, 1524181, 2017963, 2474431, 2690201, 3085553, 3326489, 4393139 (OEIS: A050249)

Wieferich primes

Primes p such that a^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²) for fixed integer a > 1.

2^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 1093, 3511 (OEIS: A001220)
3^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 11, 1006003 (OEIS: A014127)^[17][18][19]
4^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 1093, 3511
5^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2, 20771, 40487, 53471161, 1645333507, 6692367337, 188748146801 (OEIS: A123692)
6^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 66161, 534851, 3152573 (OEIS: A212583)
7^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 5, 491531 (OEIS: A123693)
8^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 3, 1093, 3511
9^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2, 11, 1006003
10^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 3, 487, 56598313 (OEIS: A045616)
11^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 71^[20]
12^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2693, 123653 (OEIS: A111027)
13^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2, 863, 1747591 (OEIS: A128667)^[20]
14^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 29, 353, 7596952219 (OEIS: A234810)
15^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 29131, 119327070011 (OEIS: A242741)
16^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 1093, 3511
17^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2, 3, 46021, 48947 (OEIS: A128668)^[20]
18^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 5, 7, 37, 331, 33923, 1284043 (OEIS: A244260)
19^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 3, 7, 13, 43, 137, 63061489 (OEIS: A090968)^[20]
20^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 281, 46457, 9377747, 122959073 (OEIS: A242982)
21^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2
22^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 13, 673, 1595813, 492366587, 9809862296159 (OEIS: A298951)
23^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 13, 2481757, 13703077, 15546404183, 2549536629329 (OEIS: A128669)
24^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 5, 25633
25^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p²): 2, 20771, 40487, 53471161, 1645333507, 6692367337, 188748146801

As of 2018, these are all known Wieferich primes with a ≤ 25.

Wilson primes

Primes p for which p² divides (p−1)! + 1.

5, 13, 563 (OEIS: A007540)

As of 2018, these are the only known Wilson primes.

Wolstenholme primes

Primes p for which the binomial coefficient ${\displaystyle {{2p-1} \choose {p-1}}\equiv 1{\pmod {p^{4}}}.}$

16843, 2124679 (OEIS: A088164)

As of 2018, these are the only known Wolstenholme primes.

Woodall primes

Of the form n×2ⁿ − 1.

7, 23, 383, 32212254719, 2833419889721787128217599, 195845982777569926302400511, 4776913109852041418248056622882488319 (OEIS: A050918)