Suppose that is -coloured. Then there exists an infinite monochromatic set.

Proof

We prove this by induction on . The case is trivial. Assume the statement for and let be a colouring. Construct the sequences for all . Let and . Consider the colouring given by

Let be an infinite monochromatic subset of under (given by the induction hypothesis) Thus we have a sequence of distinct and some colours such that

whenever . But infinitely many of will be the same, so choose this subsequence for the infinite monochromatic set.