Problem 3
Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers such that has a prime factor greater than .
Step 6 of 6: Conclude: infinitely many primes p give infinitely many valid n
Detailed analysis
By Step 5, and , so by Step 1's computation is a prime factor of with . There are infinitely many primes (a special case of Dirichlet's theorem, or shown directly via cyclotomic polynomials). The corresponding positive integers cannot take only finitely many values: if they did, the numbers would have only finitely many prime divisors, contradicting the infinitely many distinct primes constructed above. Hence infinitely many distinct positive integers satisfy the required property.