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In 1737 Euler proved Euclid’s theorem on the existence of infinitely many primes by showing that the series Σ p − 1, extended over all primes, diverges. He deduced this from the fact that the zeta function ζ(s), given by
for real s > 1, tends to 0o as s → 1. In 1837 Dirichlet proved his celebrated theorem on primes in arithmetical progressions by studying the series
where χ is a Dirichlet character and s > 1.
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Apostol, T.M. (1976). Dirichlet Series and Euler Products. In: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5579-4_12
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