Dirichlet's theorem

Dirichlet's theorem

      statement that there are infinitely many prime numbers (prime) contained in the collection of all numbers of the form na + b, in which the constants a and b are integers that have no common divisors except the number 1 (in which case the pair are known as being relatively prime) and the variable n is any natural number (1, 2, 3, …). For instance, because 3 and 4 are relatively prime, there must be infinitely many primes among numbers of the form 4n + 3 (e.g., 7 when n = 1, 11 when n = 2, 19 when n = 4, and so forth). Conjectured by the late 18th–early 19th-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauss, Carl Friedrich), the statement was first proved in 1826 by the German mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune).

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