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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born in Düren, Germany on February 13, From an early age, he was fascinated by mathematics and spent his allowance on.
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician who is most famous for his work in number theory.!
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician (1805–1859)
"Dirichlet" redirects here.
For other uses, see Dirichlet (disambiguation).
In this article, the surname is Lejeune Dirichlet.
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (;[1]German:[ləˈʒœndiʁiˈkleː];[2] 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician.
In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's last theorem and created analytic number theory. In analysis, he advanced the theory of Fourier series and was one of the first to give the modern formal definition of a function.
VI Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was published in The Princeton Companion to Mathematics on pageIn mathematical physics, he studied potential theory, boundary-value problems, and heat diffusion, and hydrodynamics.
Although his surname is Lejeune Dirichlet, he is commonly referred to by his mononymDirichlet, in particular for results named after him.
Biography
Early life (1805–1822)
Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born on 13 February 1805 in Düren, a town on the left bank of the Rhine