Friday, May 11, 2007

Bored Mathematician Discovers An Unusual Numerical Pattern While Doodling

The Ulam spiral is a simple method of graphing the prime numbers that reveals a pattern which has never been fully explained. It was discovered by the mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963, while doodling on scratch paper at a scientific meeting. Ulam, bored that day, wrote down a regular grid of numbers...

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