The first proof that many people ever learn, early in high school, is the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It takes just a few lines and uses no concepts more complicated than integers and multiplication. His proof relies on the fact that, if there were a finite number of primes, multiplying them all together and adding 1 would imply the...
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