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It is only natural that we start these notes with probably the oldest Book Proof, usually attributed to Euclid (Elements IX, 20). It shows that the sequence of primes does not end.
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2018). Six proofs of the infinity of primes. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_1
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