If the whole numbers a and b have no common factor then the sequence: a , a + b , a + 2b , a + 3b, …, a + mb where m varies from 0 to ∞ includes infinitely many primes. Proving it became known as the prime number theorem which was proved by three mathematicians, two analytically and the 3rd provided an elementary proof.


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