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Siegmund-Schultze, R. Euclid’s Proof of the Infinitude of Primes: Distorted, Clarified, Made Obsolete, and Confirmed in Modern Mathematics. Math Intelligencer 36, 87–97 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9506-9
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