Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes: distorted, clarified, made obsolete, and confirmed in modern mathematics
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Publication:2341296
DOI10.1007/s00283-014-9506-9zbMath1350.11004MaRDI QIDQ2341296
Publication date: 23 April 2015
Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/275612
01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century
11-03: History of number theory
01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century
11A41: Primes
01A20: History of Greek and Roman mathematics
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