Cool Proof of the Infinitude of Primes

This post was originally published 30 September 2018 I heard about a very cool proof of the infinitude of primes listening to the wonderful My Favorite Theorem podcast. The guest on episode 22 is Ken Ribet who is well known in the larger mathematical community because he contributed to the mathematics that led up to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, but he chose for his episode of My Favorite Theorem to talk about the infinitude of prime numbers. Read more