Ulam spiral

English

Etymology

Devised by mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1963.

Noun

Ulam spiral (plural Ulam spirals)

  1. (mathematics) A graphical depiction of the set of prime numbers, constructed by writing the positive integers in a square spiral and specially marking the primes.
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