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The Seethe of Eratosthenes 

The act of getting angry at mathematics related to prime numbers.
Person 1: "John was getting very frustrated the other day because he couldn't find an efficiently computable formula for primes."
Person 2: "Ah, that's the Seethe of Eratosthenes."

Eratosthenia 

A person obsessed with prime numbers.

Derived from the famed Mathematician Eratosthenes and his prime number sieve.
"He always sets the thermostat to 23, why?"
"Must be his Eratosthenia."
Eratosthenia by John Anec5ks June 14, 2018