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Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

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The Euler Product for Zeta Function

When I was little, there were these like wooden books that would have just a very short description of something on the left and then a picture on the right. On the last page of one of them, somewhere tiny in there was this little formula which had to do with all the primes. This is like the Euler product for Zeta function, as I later found out. The equation itself essentially encodes the fundamental theorem of arithmetic that every number can be expressed as a unique set of primes.

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