Proof That an Integer is Equal to the Sum of the Eiler Totients of it's Divisors

Theorem
\[\sum_{d | n} \phi (d)=n\]
  where
\[\phi\]
  is Euler's totient function and
\[d\]
  is a divisor of
\[n\]
.
Proof
Define
\[S_d=\{m:1 \lt m \lt n, \; gcd)m, n)=d \}\]
.
\[gcd(m,n)=d\]
  if and only if  
\[\frac{m}{d}, \; \frac{n}{d}\]
  satisfy  
\[gcd(\frac{m}{d}, \; \frac{n}{d})=1\]
. The number of elements in  
\[S\]
  is equal to the number of positive integers not exceeding  
\[\frac{n}{d}\]
  which are relatively prime to  
\[\frac{n}{d}\]
, so  
\[| S_d | = \phi )\frac{n}{d} )\]
.
Each of the integers  
\[1, \; 2, \; 3,..., \; n\]
  lies in exactly one  
\[S_d\]
  and there is one class corresponding to each divisor of  
\[n\]
,  
\[n=\sum_{d | n} \phi (\frac{n}{d})=\sum_{d | n} \phi (d)\]
.

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