A115258 Isolated primes in Ulam's lattice (1, 2, ... in spiral).

83, 101, 127, 137, 163, 199, 233, 311, 373, 443, 463, 491, 541, 587, 613, 631, 641, 659, 673, 683, 691, 733, 757, 797, 859, 881, 911, 919, 953, 971, 991, 1013, 1051, 1061, 1103, 1109, 1117, 1193, 1201, 1213, 1249, 1307, 1319, 1409, 1433, 1459, 1483, 1487

Offset

1,1

Comments

Isolated prime numbers have no adjacent primes in a lattice generated by writing consecutive integers starting from 1 in a spiral distribution. If n0 is the number of isolated primes and p the number of primes less than N, the ratio n0/p approaches 1 as N increases. If n1, n2, n3, n4 denote the number of primes with respectively 1, 2, 3, 4 adjacent primes in the lattice, the ratios n1/n0, n2/n1, n3/n2, n4/n3 approach 0 as N increases. The limits stand for any 2D lattice of integers generated by a priori criteria (i.e., not knowing distributions of primes) as Ulam's lattice.

References

G. Balzarotti and P. P. Lava, Le sequenze di numeri interi, Hoepli, 2008, p. 22.

Links

Michael De Vlieger, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Spiral.

Example

83 is an isolated prime as the adjacent numbers in lattice 50, 51, 81, 82, 84, 123, 124, 125 are not primes.
From Michael De Vlieger, Dec 22 2015: (Start)
Spiral including n <= 17^2 showing only primes, with the isolated primes in parentheses (redrawn by Jon E. Schoenfield, Aug 06 2017):
  257 .  .  .  .  . 251 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 241
   . 197 .  .  . 193 . 191 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 139 .(137).  .  .  .  . 239
   .(199).(101).  .  . 97  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 181 .
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 61  . 59  .  .  . 131 .  .
   .  .  . 103 . 37  .  .  .  .  . 31  . 89  . 179 .
  263 . 149 . 67  . 17  .  .  . 13  .  .  .  .  .  .
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  5  .  3  . 29  .  .  .  .  .
   .  . 151 .  .  . 19  .  .  2 11  . 53  .(127).(233)
   .  .  . 107 . 41  .  7  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
   .  .  .  . 71  .  .  . 23  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
   .  .  . 109 . 43  .  .  . 47  .  .  .(83) . 173 .
  269 .  .  . 73  .  .  .  .  . 79  .  .  .  .  . 229
   .  .  .  .  . 113 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
  271 . 157 .  .  .  .  .(163).  .  . 167 .  .  . 227
   . 211 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 223 .  .  .
   .  .  .  . 277 .  .  . 281 . 283 .  .  .  .  .  .

Maple

# A is Ulam's lattice
if (isprime(A[x, y])and(not(isprime(A[x+1, y]) or isprime(A[x-1, y])or isprime(A[x, y+1])or isprime(A[x, y-1])or isprime(A[x-1, y-1])or isprime(A[x+1, y+1])or isprime(A[x+1, y-1])or isprime(A[x-1, y+1])))) then print (A[x, y]) ; fi;

Mathematica

spiral[n_] := Block[{o = 2 n - 1, t, w}, t = Table[0, {o}, {o}]; t = ReplacePart[t, {n, n} -> 1]; Do[w = Partition[Range[(2 (# - 1) - 1)^2 + 1, (2 # - 1)^2], 2 (# - 1)] &@ k; Do[t = ReplacePart[t, {(n + k) - (j + 1), n + (k - 1)} -> #[[1, j]]]; t = ReplacePart[t, {n - (k - 1), (n + k) - (j + 1)} -> #[[2, j]]]; t = ReplacePart[t, {(n - k) + (j + 1), n - (k - 1)} -> #[[3, j]]]; t = ReplacePart[t, {n + (k - 1), (n - k) + (j + 1)} -> #[[4, j]]], {j, 2 (k - 1)}] &@ w, {k, 2, n}]; t]; f[w_] := Block[{d = Dimensions@ w, t, g}, t = Reap[Do[Sow@ Take[#[[k]], {2, First@ d - 1}], {k, 2, Last@ d - 1}]][[-1, 1]] &@ w; g[n_] := If[n != 0, Total@ Join[Take[w[[Last@ # - 1]], {First@ # - 1, First@ # + 1}], {First@ #, Last@ #} &@ Take[w[[Last@ #]], {First@ # - 1, First@ # + 1}], Take[w[[Last@ # + 1]], {First@ # - 1, First@# + 1}]] &@(Reverse@ First@ Position[t, n] + {1, 1}) == 0, False]; Select[Union@ Flatten@ t, g@ # &]]; f[spiral@ 21 /. n_ /; CompositeQ@ n -> 0] (* Michael De Vlieger, Dec 22 2015, Version 10 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A001107, A002939, A007742, A033951-A033954, A033989, A033990, A033991, A002943, A033996, A033988, A014848.

Cf. A113688 (isolated semiprimes in the semiprime spiral), A156859.

Sequence in context: A335916 A158719 A160028 * A316970 A139965 A180523

Adjacent sequences: A115255 A115256 A115257 * A115259 A115260 A115261

Keyword

nonn

Author

Giorgio Balzarotti and Paolo P. Lava, Feb 17 2006

Status

approved