Posted by: Alexandre Borovik | April 27, 2008

Linear independence

Linear independence over \mathbb{Q} of numbers

\log 2,\quad \log 3, \quad \log 5,\dots

is equivalent to uniqueness of decomposition of integers into a product of prime numbers. This observation, apparently, belongs to Harad Bohr.

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