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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet ( German: [ləˈʒœn diʁiˈkleː]; [1] 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician. In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's last theorem and created analytic number theory.
May 1, 2024 · Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician who made valuable contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He taught at the universities of Breslau (1827) and Berlin (1828–55) and in 1855 succeeded Carl Friedrich Gauss at the University of Göttingen.
May 5, 2012 · Quick Info. Born. 13 February 1805. Düren, French Empire (now Germany) Died. 5 May 1859. Göttingen, Hanover (now Germany) Summary. Lejeune Dirichlet is best known for his proof that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes. View seven larger pictures. Biography.
This is the first extensive biography of the influential German mathematician, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 – 1859). Dirichlet made major contributions to number theory in addition to clarifying concepts such as the representation of functions as series, the theory of convergence, and potential theory.
Johann Peter Gustave Lejeune Dirichlet. 1805-1859. German Mathematician. L ejeune Dirichlet was a professor at the University of Berlin prior to accepting a chair—previously held by Carl Gauss (1777-1855)—at the University of Göttingen.
1. Introduction. The great advances of mathematics in Germany during the first half of the nine-teenth century are to a predominantly large extent associated with the pioneering work of C.F. Gauß (1777–1855), C.G.J. Jacobi (1804–1851), and G. Lejeune Dirich-let (1805–1859).
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born on February 13, 1805 in Diiren, between Aachen and Cologne. His father was a postmaster and his grandfather hailed from the
Dirichlet was the first mathematician who systematically studied rings of al gebraic numbers with the goal to generalize the unique decomposition of natural numbers as products of primes.
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet. Chapter. pp 33–39. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Helmut Koch. 456 Accesses. 1 Citations. Abstract. Dirichlet was born on February 13, 1805, in Düren, a town midway between Aachen und Cologne, where his father was town postmaster.
The great nineteenth-century mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–59) studied in Paris, coming under the influence of scholars including Fourier and Legendre. He then taught at Berlin and Göttingen universities, where he was the successor to Gauss and mentor to Riemann and Dedekind.
