Re: Review of Mueckenheims book.

On 16 Mrz., 16:35, "*** T. Winter" <***.Win...@xxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1174053086.178347.99...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mueck...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

He assumed that he could multiply together an assigned multitude of primes.

That need not be assumed. That is obvious. Even for a Greek it was
possible by continued repetition of products of three factors.

Not that you could multiply together *all* of them.

He *proved*, by contradiction, that he could not multiply all
together.

Regards, WM

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