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How many prime numbers are there? Euclid’s theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory which asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers. There are several well-known proofs of the theorem. Euclid offered the following proof published in his work Elements (Book IX, Proposition 20) and paraphrased here. Take any finite list of prime [...]

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