A short proof of van der Waerden’s theorem on arithmetic progressions
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Abstract:
A short proof is given for the classical theorem of van der Waerden which asserts that for any partition of the integers into a finite number of classes, some class contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.References
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- © Copyright 1974 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1974), 385-386
- MSC: Primary 05A99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1974-0329917-8
- MathSciNet review: 0329917