In: Advanced Math
Following the Well Ordering Principle for Integers suppose n is an arbitrary integer greater than 1 and:
Z={x is a positive integer such that x is greater than or equal to 2 and x divides n}
Let y be the least element is set Z. Using proof by contradiction, show that y is prime.
Given
be an integer greater than 1 .
That is the set
is collection of all positive divisor of
which are greater than equals to 2 .
Now
be the least element of
. So
is an element of
,
Then there exisy
with
such that
.
a contradiction to
be the least element of
and
as
,
.
.
.
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