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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2023 Prelims Mathematics I 6 c Solution by
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Suppose there were only finitely many prime numbers, say . Work in the infinite group and set . The left cosets are the residue classes modulo , so each is a finite-index subgroup, with .
By part (b)(v), is empty or infinite. But part (a)(ii) identifies it as the nonempty two-element set . This contradiction proves Euclid's theorem:
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