Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Infinitude of the Primes

I’d like to unidle.

Also - assume the contrary - therefore there must be a maximum prime n. Construct a new number n! + 1. Clearly this is not divisible by 2…n and must therefore be prime. This is a contradiction. QED.

posted by nqeron at 11 Jun 2013 16:48:34 UTC Comments (1)

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quirck: he/him

11-06-2013 17:12:50 UTC

Done, but quorum is still 8.