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The Genesis of Prime Numbers—Revealing the Underlying Periodicity of Prime Numbers

Xin Wang

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Prime numbers are the integers that cannot be divided exactly by another integer other than one and itself. Prime numbers are notoriously disobedient to rules: they seem to be randomly distributed among natural numbers with no laws except that of chance. Questions about prime numbers have been perplexing mathematicians over centuries. How to efficiently predict greater prime numbers has been a great challenge for many. Most of the previous studies focus on how many prime numbers there are in certain ranges or patterns of the first or last digits of prime numbers. Honestly, although these patterns are true, they help little with accurately predicting new prime numbers, as a deviation at any digit is enough to annihilate the primality of a number. The author demonstrates the periodicity and inter-relationship underlying all prime numbers that makes the occurrence of all prime numbers predictable. This knowledge helps to fish all prime numbers within one net and will help to speed up the related research.

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Prime numbers are the integers that cannot be divided exactly by another integer other than one and itself. Prime numbers are notoriously disobedient to rules: they seem to be randomly distributed among natural numbers with no laws except that of chance. Questions about prime numbers have been perplexing mathematicians over centuries. How to efficiently predict greater prime numbers has been a great challenge for many. Most of the previous studies focus on how many prime numbers there are in certain ranges or patterns of the first or last digits of prime numbers. Honestly, although these patterns are true, they help little with accurately predicting new prime numbers, as a deviation at any digit is enough to annihilate the primality of a number. The author demonstrates the periodicity and inter-relationship underlying all prime numbers that makes the occurrence of all prime numbers predictable. This knowledge helps to fish all prime numbers within one net and will help to speed up the related research.

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Prime numbers are the integers that cannot be divided exactly by another integer other than one and itself. Prime numbers are notoriously disobedient to rules: they seem to be randomly distributed among natural numbers with no laws except that of chance. Questions about prime numbers have been perplexing mathematicians over centuries. How to efficiently predict greater prime numbers has been a great challenge for many. Most of the previous studies focus on how many prime numbers there are in certain ranges or patterns of the first or last digits of prime numbers. Honestly, although these patterns are true, they help little with accurately predicting new prime numbers, as a deviation at any digit is enough to annihilate the primality of a number. The author demonstrates the periodicity and inter-relationship underlying all prime numbers that makes the occurrence of all prime numbers predictable. This knowledge helps to fish all prime numbers within one net and will help to speed up the related research.

Key concepts: Prime k-tuple, Mathematics, Prime number, Almost prime, Primality test, Prime (order theory), Number theory, Natural number

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