📐 Infinitude of Primes

There are infinitely many prime numbers.

Proof: Given primes $p_1, \\ldots, p_n$, consider $N = p_1 \\cdots p_n + 1$. No $p_i$ divides $N$, so $N$ has a prime factor not in the list.

From: intro-discrete

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