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Past exam of the analytic number theory and elliptic curves course of the University of Oxford 2007 A 1 ii Solution by
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For a finite set of primes , multiply the absolutely convergent local series. Unique prime factorization and multiplicativity, with , giveThe omitted integers all exceed , so the absolute difference from is at most , which tends to zero. Hence the finite products converge to :This proves the Euler product directly from absolute convergence, rather than treating an infinite formal multiplication as automatically valid.
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