Are There?

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A note fron "Contemporary Abstract Algebra - J.A. Gallian (8th Edition)

"I was interviewed in the Israeli Radio fir five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked: "Are the still infinitely many primes?"
                                                                -Noga Alon


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