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From http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSpiral.html :

This construction was first made by Polish-American mathematician Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1986) in 1963 while doodling during a boring talk at a scientific meeting.

Awesome. My new excuse for all those doodles in my engineering notebook: valuable, valuable mathematical research.



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