Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 165 years ago |
Date of birth | February 13,1805 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Duren |
Germany | |
Date of died | May 5,1859 |
Died | Gottingen |
Germany | |
Spouse | Rebecka Mendelssohn |
Parents | Johann Arnold Lejeune Dirichlet |
Anna Elisabeth Lindne | |
Job | Mathematician |
Books | Lectures on Number Theory |
Voronoi Translated: Introduction to Voronoi Tessellation and Essays by G. L. Dirichlet and G. F. Voronoi | |
Awards | Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art |
University of Bonn | |
Pour le Mérite | |
Doctor student | Gotthold Eisenstein |
Thesi | Partial Results on Fermat's Last Theorem, Exponent 5 (1827) |
Education | University of Bonn |
Dreikönigsgymnasium | |
Academic advisor | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Joseph Fourier | |
Siméon Denis Poisson | |
Nationality | German |
Prussian | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 541223 |
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Life story
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician who made contributions to number theory, and to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.