Aesthetics of the Prime Sequence

Mainpage A prime number is a number that is only divisible by 1 and itself. Throughout the history human beings tried to understand the environment. It was (is) important for the evolution. Often the environment was too complex to understand in its entirety. Humans were forced to compress information and still be able to tackle it. Sometimes they were successful and somtimes they failed.

A formula to produce prime numbers dosent exist. They can not (yet?) be reduced to something smaller than itself. They are the basic numbers which all other numbers are build from. Every non-prime is divisible by a prime. This characteristic is important in cryptography. Some species of insects even use primes in reproduce time as an advantage against predators. (primes are not only a human fantasy). Which leads to the question: If the billion year evolution use the advantage of non-compressibility of the primes to produce organisms, is then man capable to prove the opposite of this characteristic?

The first prime numbers: 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251 257 263 269 271 277 281 283 293 307 311 313 317 331 337 347 349 353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409.......... Download the first 100000 prime numbers in text format
Introduction
Primality testing Applet
Primes and music
Primes and nucleotide bases
Primes graphics
Idiot savants and primes
Software
Related links
Copyrights notice
Lyapunov graphics
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