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It is only natural that we start these notes with probably the oldest Book Proof, usually attributed to Euclid. It shows that the sequence of primes does not end.
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Erdös: Über die Reihe Σ 1/p, Mathematica, Zutphen B 7(1938), 1–2.
L. Euler: Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum,Tomus Primus, Lausanne 1748; Opera Omnia, Ser. 1, Vol. 90.
H. Fürstenberg: On the infinitude of primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 62 (1955), 353.
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (1998). Six proofs of the infinity of primes. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22343-7_1
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