When Way Kuo, a senior fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, claimed in a working paper appearing in the SSRN Electronic Journal that his team had “devised a way to accurately and swiftly predict when prime numbers will appear,” it set off a bit of a tizzy. 

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