Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
And later ordered the publication of his collected works edited by Kronecker and Lazarus Fuchs
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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician. In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's Last Theorem and created analytic number theory. In analysis, he advanced the theory of Fourier series and was one of the first to give the modern formal definition of a function. In mathematical physics, he studied potential theory, boundary-value problems, heat diffusion, and h…
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Born 13 February 1805 · Died 5 May 1859 · Q29193
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1859· 1 entry
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Died 1859-05-05.
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1855· 5 entries
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1855).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1855).
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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Awarded Pour le Mérite (1855).
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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Upon Gauss's death, the University of Göttingen decided to call Dirichlet as his successor
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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Dirichlet was awarded the civil class medal of the Pour le Mérite order at Alexander von Humboldt's recommendation
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1849· 1 entry
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Dirichlet participated, together with his friend Jacobi, in the jubilee of Gauss's doctorate
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1846· 1 entry
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When the Heidelberg University tried to recruit Dirichlet, Jacobi provided von Humboldt the needed support to obtain a doubling of Dirichlet's pay at the university in order to keep him in Berlin; however, even then he w
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1844· 1 entry
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Jacobi moved to Berlin as a royal pensioner, their friendship becoming even closer
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1843· 1 entry
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When Jacobi fell ill, Dirichlet traveled to Königsberg to help him, then obtained for him the assistance of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV's personal physician
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1842· 1 entry
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Obtained for him a full professor position at the University of Breslau
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1841· 1 entry
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Generalized his arithmetic progressions theorem from integers to the ring of Gaussian integers
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1840· 1 entry
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Kummer married Ottilie Mendelssohn, a cousin of Rebecka's
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1839· 2 entries
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Jacobi sent Dirichlet a paper by Ernst Kummer, at the time a schoolteacher
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During a visit to Paris, Dirichlet met Joseph Liouville, the two mathematicians becoming friends, keeping in contact and even visiting each other with the families a few years later
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1838· 1 entry
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And 1839, he proved the first class number formula for quadratic forms (later refined by his student Kronecker)
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1837· 1 entry
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Dirichlet proved his theorem on arithmetic progressions using concepts from mathematical analysis to tackle an algebraic problem, thus creating the branch of analytic number theory
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1832· 2 entries
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Dirichlet became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the youngest member at only 27 years old
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Married Dirichlet, who was introduced to the Mendelssohn family by Alexander von Humboldt
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1831· 1 entry
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Assigned him to the faculty of philosophy
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1829· 3 entries
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During a trip, he met Carl Jacobi, at the time professor of mathematics at Königsberg University
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Sang a small role in the premiere, given at the Mendelssohn house, of Felix's Singspiel Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde
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A famous memoir giving the conditions, showing for which functions the convergence of the Fourier series holds
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1827· 1 entry
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Studied at University of Bonn, Doctor (1827–1827).
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1825· 1 entry
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Studied at University of Paris (1821–1825).
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1823· 1 entry
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Was recommended to General Maximilien Foy, who hired him as a private tutor to teach his children German, the wage finally allowing Dirichlet to become independent from his parents' financial support
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1821· 1 entry
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Studied at Dreikönigsgymnasium (1819–1821).
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1820· 1 entry
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Dirichlet moved to the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne, where his lessons with Georg Ohm helped widen his knowledge in mathematics
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1819· 1 entry
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Studied at Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn (1817–1819).
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1817· 1 entry
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Sent him to the Gymnasium Bonn under the care of Peter Joseph Elvenich, a student his family knew
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1816· 1 entry
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Her parents arranged for her to be baptised at which point she took the names Rebecka Henriette Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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1805· 1 entry
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Born 1805-02-13.
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