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🌀 Prime Spiral (Ulam Spiral) 🌀

Discover the hidden patterns in prime numbers

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🧠 The Ulam Spiral Explained

The Ulam Spiral (also called the Prime Spiral) is a graphical method of visualizing prime numbers, discovered by mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963.

How it works:

  • Start with 1 at the center
  • Spiral outward, placing consecutive integers in a square spiral pattern
  • Highlight prime numbers
  • Mysterious diagonal lines and patterns emerge!

Fascinating Patterns:

  • Prime numbers tend to cluster along certain diagonal lines
  • These patterns reveal relationships between primes and quadratic polynomials
  • The most famous pattern is the line corresponding to n² + n + 41, which produces many primes
  • These patterns are still not fully understood by mathematicians
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