"The Elements contains thirteen books by Euclid, and two, of which it is supposed that Hypsicles and Damascius are the authors. ...The seventh, eighth, ninth books are on the theory of numbers, or on arithmetic. In the ninth book is found the proof to the theorem that the number of primes is infinite."
Prime number

January 1, 1970

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