Lejeune Dirichlet, Peter Gustav, 1805-1859

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Dates:
Birth 1805-02-13
Death 1859-05-05
Germans
German, German,

Biographical notes:

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a mathematician who made deep 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.

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Subjects:

  • Differential equations, Partial
  • Interval analysis (Mathematics)
  • Manuscripts
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Number theory
  • Mathematics

Occupations:

  • Mathematicians

Places:

  • 07, DE
  • 06, DE