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- From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Non-number theoretcial proofs in number theory
- Message-ID: <C15H03.A3q@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 11:24:02 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
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- It's years since I've done any proper maths, but what I'm after are
- examples of proofs of statements about the natural numbers or integers
- that use ideas and methods external to number theory, like for example
- results from the theory of complex numbers. Ideally I'd like an example
- which is such that no proof only involving natural numbers or integers
- is known. A reference to a good textbook would be acceptable.
- Please reply by email and I'll post any good examples.
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- Antoni Diller
- A.R.Diller@cs.bham.ac.uk
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