Lejeune Dirichlet, Peter Gustav, 1805-1859

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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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Düren 07 DE
Göttingen 06 DE
Subject
Differential equations, Partial
Interval analysis (Mathematics)
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Mathematics
Mathematics
Number theory
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Mathematicians
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Birth 1805-02-13

Death 1859-05-05

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German

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