That's just the thing. Does anyone understand the primes, really? We know a lot about number fields, multiplication and sieving... but the primes themselves (

That's just the thing. Does anyone understand the primes, really? We know a lot about number fields, multiplication and sieving... but the primes themselves (the "holes" left in the wake of the sieving process) are something of an epiphenomenon to all of this.