Euclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory asserting that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Euclid first proved it in his work Elements, and the result has since accumulated at least two hundred distinct proofs.
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StatementEuclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory that asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers. 1 Classification
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Euclid, Mathematicians Derived from the theorem's own name (unambiguous possessive-token match to exactly one live mathematician entity, w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill)
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1. Euclid's Theorem (Wikipedia)
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Euclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory that asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers.
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