Why Sam Northshield's recent one-line proof of the infinitude of primes is flawed?

2017/10/20 by Karamzadeh, O. A. S.
#97D50 #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.07633

Abstract

We refute the so-called one-line proof of the infinitude of primes in [1].

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