Twitter called my attention to this (hastily written and error-prone, according to the comments) post in SciAm. The picture looks beautiful (though the link to a larger version doesn't work) and it seems like it might be really important. Anybody math savvy enough to weigh in?
The usually quiet world of mathematics is abuzz with a claim that one of the most important problems in number theory has been solved. --Diary enhanced at Palantir's request over the croissant.When arranging the natural numbers in a spiral and emphasizing the prime numbers, an intriguing and not fully explained pattern is observed, called the Ulam spiral. (This is the caption to the image that fails to enlarge)