在《科学美国人》杂志的附录中[4]提及到,加德纳指出,爬虫两栖类学者劳伦斯·门罗·克劳伯(英语:Laurence Monroe Klauber)在1932年——在乌拉姆的发现之前30多年——的美国数学学会上所做的报告中,便有为了研究富素数二次多项式而将素数排列为二维结构的例子。与乌拉姆不同的是,克劳伯的数列不是以正方形结构,而是用三角形来写的。[5]
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