Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 166 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.