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

Author

Giorgio Balzarotti and Paolo P. Lava, Feb 17 2006

Keywords

• nonn

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.

Examples

			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 .  .  .  .  .  .
(End)
		

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.

Crossrefs

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

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

Programs

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 *)