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by dbbolton 3743 days ago
Another thing that kind of irked me was this section:

>This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime numbers behave much like random numbers...

I was under the impression that Ulam's Spiral was a much earlier indication (1960s) that primes weren't really as random as we thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral