The Ulam Spiral

http://serendipity.magnet.ch/hermetic/pns/pns.htm
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/hermetic/misc/numcol.htm
http://www.alpertron.com.ar/ULAM.HTM
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~bunyip/primes/primeSpiral.htm
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~bunyip/primes/triangleUlam.htm
http://www.jcrystal.com/steffenweber/JAVA/primes/jprime1.html
[uncheck all primes and check triangle numbers for a breathtaking
graphic!]
http://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/Programming/PostScript-primes/
http://ourworld.cs.com/ttpi314159/index.htm?f=fs
Several Ulam-like spirals (with no credit)
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/roseacre-numeracy/numbersquares.html
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/roseacre-numeracy/index.html
There is currently no explanation for the distinct diagonal lines which
appear when the primes are marked out along a particular 'square spiral'
path. This was accidentally discovered by nuclear physicist Stanislaw Ulam
while he was passing the time during a boring lecture.
http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/ulam.htm
Ulam and a couple of his colleagues programmed the Maniac II mainframe
at Los Alamos to plot a square spiral diagram of the integers up to 10
million. The diagonal prime pattern continued. Although this phenomenon
has been studied somewhat, so far nobody's been able to make anything out
of it [Hoffman].
http://www.google.com/search?
q=cache:RXTiB5RRNRgC:www.angelfire.com/ca2/Thechurch2/primepape
r.nb+%22square+spiral%22+ulam&hl=en

Biography
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ulam.html
http://spot.colorado.edu/~gamow/george/1982bio.html
http://www.aulam.org/stanulam.htm
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ulam.html
ON the law of averages:
http://www.maxvalue.com/news11.htm
ON penchant for inventing pattern games for the computer at Los Alamos:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/AI/alife/al-ca.htm

Fringe elements/Curiosities (not necessarily for

dissemination)
a) Ulam interests the Bible Code crowd and for Gann the Bible is the
greatest of all textbooks:
http://jollyroger.com/zz/ychristiand/WatchmanNeehall/cas/7.html
http://jollyroger.com/zz/ychristiand/WatchmanNeehall/cas/9.html
b) Ulam pops up in channeling session on music and the structure of
pyramids, both Gann areas of study:
http://157.238.46.128/cass/stephanie.htm
c) Ulam is not directly mentioned, but the site below suggests that nuclear
weapons, and specifically the H-bomb of which Ulam was the co-creator,
were developed through cracking the sacred geometry of the Knights
Templar. The coincidences with Gann are many, three of which are:

1) I believe, as recently posted to the Tunnel Thru the Air

group, that Gann makes reference to the Knights Templar in
his novel in veiled language.
2) On the site, the author says: The Babylonian god being E.A.
or Oannes, attired in his fish suit holds the bread and a pail
or grail. According to the Babylonians, he founded
civilization on Earth. He is also featured in the scene on the
right standing in front of the Pillar. While in Boston
recently, I made a photocopy of a book which I happened
to see and borrow from the library when I was in graduate
school many years ago (William Simpson, The Jonah
Legend: A Suggestion of Interpretation). His position is that
Jonah is an initiatic story. And he has the same illustration
of Oannes in the book and references in different places to
Oannes. (And if I were to turn anywhere for interpretation of
Gann, I would probably turn first to anything Mason-related
I could get my hands on.) It is striking indeed that Ganns
Robert Gordon says, I have read the Book of Jonah thru
very carefully, and I believe that I understand what the
Saviour meant when he said: No sign shall be given, but the
sign of the prophet Jonas. I believe there was a secret
meaning in what he said; that the Son of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth. I believe that a
man who understands the meaning of that has all the
power under heaven and earth, as the Bible says he
shall have. I believe that that is the key to the interpretation
of the future. I am sure I have found it and know how to
apply it. (Tunnel, p. 69) Is it possible to link Jonah to
Oannes? If so, Robert Temple [in The Sirius Mystery]
makes a closely-argued case that Oannes and the Sirius
connection is at the heart of the Classical mystery religions
that have so far defied explanation because they were
deliberately recorded in coded form; initiates of the
mysteries were forbidden to reveal the arcane knowledge
they had been taught.
http://sphinxtemple.virtualave.net/articles/dogon.html
3) Both Ulam and Gann were working with a number spiral or a
square of nine. Ulam was one of the co-inventors of the Hbomb and Gann had on his recommended reading list
Wesley Stouts Secret, an Explanation Of The Creation &

Principles Of Atomic Weapons (Sacred Science catalog). I

examined the book while in Boston, but I didnt know about
Ulam then, so I dont remember quite honestly if it
mentioned him by name.
http://www.williamhenry.net/H-Bomb.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890693499/

Bibliography
The following references are books or articles specifically related to the
Ulam spiral:
Apostol, Tom M., Introduction to Analytic Number Theory, pp. 6-7
Davis, Philip J. and Hersh, Reuben, The Mathematical Experience
Dembski, William A. Review of Cracking the Bible Code, First Things, No.
85, pp. 61-64, August/September 1998.
Dembski, William A., The Design Inference, Cambridge University Press,
1998.
Dewdney, A. K., "How to pan for primes in numerical gravel," Scientific
American, July 1988, p.90-93 (see p. 91)
Ellerstein, S. M., "The Pronic Renaissance: The Ulam Square Spiral
(Modified)," Journal of Recreational Mathematics 29 (3)
Gardner, M., The Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific
American, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 80-83 and 88-89,
1984.
Hoffman, P., The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos
and the Search for Mathematical Truth, New York: Hyperion, pp. 105-109,
1998.
Pickover, Clifford A., Computers and the Imagination, pp. 213-214

REC, the journal of computer mathematical recreation, includes an article

about a graphical display of prime numbers, Stanislaw Ulam's spiral. [REC,
909 Violet Terrace Clarks Summit PA 18411 USA]
Satinover, Jeffrey M.D., Cracking the Bible Code, William Morrow and Co.,
N.Y., 1997, Technical Appendix B.
Stein, M. L.; Ulam, S. M.; and Wells, M. B., A visual display of some
properties of the distribution of primes. American Mathematics Monthly.
71 (5): 516-520. See also: Sets, Numbers, and Universes, Selected Works,
Cambridge : The MIT Press, 1974. (690-695. 698)
The above were culled from the following sites:
http://hjem.get2net.dk/bnielsen/ulam.html
http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/ulam.htm
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSpiral.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/5113/fr20.htm
[search Ulam]
http://www.kathrynkuhlman.com/codes/christm.htm
cf:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mcdemarco/portfolio/els_math.html
The following are books by Ulam himself:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handleurl/index=books&field-keywords=Ulam%2C%20Stanislaw
%20M/ref=br_sub_/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521364949/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0124921507/
These are general references on Ulam, not necessarily related to
the spiral:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Ulam.html

NOT Ulam, but interesting:

http://mcraefamily.com/MathHelp/PuzzleSequenceOfSquares.htm