If you can understand how to do prime factorization, you can prove the 2a^2 = b^2 false by showing there will always be an extra 2 on the left side (when you do the prime factorization of a^2 and b^2 and use that instead of the a^2 and b^2 notation that is) that the right side can never match.
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