Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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a German mathematician who made contributions to number theory, and to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis;
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Born
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet 13 February 1805 Düren, French Empire
Died
5 May 1859 (aged 54) Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover
Nationality
German
Known for
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Fields
Mathematician
Awards
PhD (Hon) : University of Bonn (1827) Pour le Mérite (1855)
Institutions
University of Breslau University of Berlin University of Göttingen
Academic advisors
Siméon Poisson Joseph Fourier Carl Gauss
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Germany
Doctoral students
Gotthold Eisenstein Leopold Kronecker Rudolf Lipschitz Carl Wilhelm Borchardt
era
1800+
Other notable students
Moritz Cantor Elwin Bruno Christoffel Richard Dedekind Alfred Enneper Eduard Heine Bernhard Riemann Ludwig Schläfli Ludwig von Seidel Wilhelm Weber Julius Weingarten
Thesis
Partial Results on Fermat's Last Theorem, Exponent 5 (1827)