Units Groups and the Infinitude of Primes (Part II)
This post serves as a follow-up article to “Units Groups and the Infinitude of Primes”, and looks at generalizations of those results to a wide class of commutative rings.
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Units Groups and the Infinitude of Primes
This post concerns generalizations of Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes to number fields, where it can be viewed as a relationship between the size of the units group and the number of prime ideals in a ring.
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