I'm having difficulty understanding how to prove that the primitive roots of unity are in fact dense on the unit circle. I have the following so far:
The unit circle can be written $D=\{x\in\mathbb{C}:|x|=1\}$. The set of primitive $m$-th roots of unity is $A_m=\{\zeta_k:\zeta_k^m=1,\zeta_k\text{ is primitive}\}$.
Hence, the set of all primitive roots $A$ is given by the union of $A_m$ over $m=1,2,3,\ldots$. But I can't seem to get started on how to prove that $A$ is dense in $D$.
To show the primitive roots of unity are dense in the unit circle, we must show that if we pick any point on the unit circle and any $\epsilon>0,$ there is some primitive root of unity with distance less than $\epsilon$ from the chosen point.
The easy way is to specialize $m$ to be prime - then every root of unity other than $1$ is primitive. Since the roots will be distributed evenly along the circle, if we pick a large enough prime we can make the distance between any two adjacent primitive roots less than $\epsilon.$ Then certainly if we pick any point on the unit circle, it will be within $\epsilon$ from a root.
