Abstract

The Dirichlet’s theorem (1837), initially guessed by Gauss, is a result of analytic number theory. Dirichlet, demonstrated that: For any two positive coprime integers and , there are infinite primes of the form , where is a non-negative integer ( 1, 2, ... ). In other words, there are infinite primes which are congruent to mod b. The numbers of the form is an arithmetic progression. Actually, Dirichlet checks a result somewhat more interesting than the previous claim, since he demonstrated that: ln → ∞ Which implies that there are infinite primes, ≡ . The proof of the theorem uses the properties of certain Dirichlet L-functions and some results on arithmetic of complex numbers, and it is sufficiently complex that some texts about numbers theory excluded it. Here is a simple proof by reductio ad absurdum which does not require extensive mathematical knowledge. Original Research Article Ferreira and Guardo; JSRR, 10(3): 1-7, 2016; Article no.JSRR.24470 2

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