I find primes spooky. They seem to be a concept that exists regardless of reality or universe. How does such a incontrovertible structure arise?
ps. Various numerology phenomena have a similar vibe, and no wonder so many people who go off the deep end tend to get trapped by them. Maybe I will be one of them as I become old and senile :-D
> How does such a incontrovertible structure arise?
yes, I also enjoy trying to answer this question.
what is such an structure even mean? how could it be that simply defining numbers, obersving addition, and generalizing it away into multiplication would yield this natural structure?
It all begins with zero. the predecessor of One, the best known number.
zero can be assumed by anyone. the surprise is how all zeros are the same zero. (by uniqueness of emptyset; but as I hope you can see, I'm a crank. a nutjob. I'll stop