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The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic is the assertion that every natural number greater than 1 can be uniquely (up to the order of the factors) factored into a product of prime numbers. We present a very beautiful proof of this theorem.
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Rosenthal, D., Rosenthal, D., Rosenthal, P. (2014). The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. In: A Readable Introduction to Real Mathematics. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05654-8_4
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