Concept information
Preferred term
Ulam spiral
Definition
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The Ulam spiral or prime spiral is a graphical depiction of the set of prime numbers, devised by mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963 and popularized in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American a short time later. It is constructed by writing the positive integers in a square spiral and specially marking the prime numbers.
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral)
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- prime spiral
In other languages
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French
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spirale des nombres premiers
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-VMRMT9Z5-1
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