Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

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Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...