A Pattern in Prime Numbers

Mathematics
January 9, 2021

Stanislaw Ulam stumbled upon a visual pattern in Prime Numbers in 1963. He noticed that prime numbers seemed to appear in lines, which was an incredible discovery because prime numbers are significant in mathematics. Maybe this was an option to predict them without having to calculate them.

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