Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai

Dirichlet's theorem on Arithmetic progressions

Speaker : Sampa Dey, Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, IITM

24-12-2018

Abstract :

The arithmetic progression of odd numbers $1, 3,...,2n+1,...$ contains infinitely many primes. It is natural to ask whether other arithmetic progressions also have this property. Dirichlet was the first who addressed this problem and proved that there are infinitely many primes in any arithmetic progression with certain conditions. We will discuss this result.

Key Speaker Sampa Dey, Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, IITM
Place KCB 519
Start Time 3:00 PM
Finish Time 4:00 PM
External Link None