Re: Review of Mueckenheims book.

In article <1174140572.700528.281050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mueckenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
On 16 Mrz., 16:35, "*** T. Winter" <***.Win...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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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.

Of course it is obvious.

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

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

Can you provide me *where* he did prove that? The only thing he *did*
prove that there are more primes than any assigned number of primes,
using that you can multiply together an assigned number of primes.
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