We use a method of Erdös in order to prove the linear independence over ℚ of the numbers
for every q∈Z, with |q|≥2. The main idea consists in considering the two above series as Lambert series. This allows to expand them as power series of 1/q. The Taylor coefficients of these expansions are arithmetical functions, whose properties allow to apply an elementary irrationality criterion, which yields the result.
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