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UMS Talk – A Plethora of Proofs on the Plenitude of Primes

By Dr. Jesse Thorner

Abstract: Prime numbers are the building blocks for the positive integers; in particular, every integer n ≥ 2 can be expressed uniquely (up to ordering) as a product of primes. I will give several proofs that there are infinitely many primes. The proofs touch on ideas from number theory, set theory, calculus, and dynamical systems.