The great nineteenth-century mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–59) studied in Paris, coming under the influence of scholars including Fourier and Legendre. He then taught at Berlin and Göttingen universities, where he was the successor to Gauss and mentor to Riemann and Dedekind. Hi...

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Main Author:	Lejeune Dirichlet, Peter Gustav 1805-1859 (Author)
Other Authors:	Kronecker, Leopold 1823-1891 (Editor), Fuchs, L. 1833-1902 (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	German
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:	Cambridge library collection. Mathematics
Subjects:	Mathematik Mathematics
Online Access:	BSB01 FHN01 Volltext
Summary:	The great nineteenth-century mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–59) studied in Paris, coming under the influence of scholars including Fourier and Legendre. He then taught at Berlin and Göttingen universities, where he was the successor to Gauss and mentor to Riemann and Dedekind. His achievements include the first satisfactory proof of the convergence of Fourier series under appropriate conditions, and the theorem on primes in arithmetic progression which was, at the same time, the foundation of analytic number theory and one of its greatest achievements. He also did important work on Laplace's equation, the theory of series and many other topics. This two-volume collection of his works, published 1889–97, was compiled by Leopold Kronecker (1823–91). Volume 2 was completed by Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902) and contains Dirichlet's publications from 1844 onwards, together with some unpublished papers and selected correspondence with Gauss, Alexander von Humboldt and Kronecker
Item Description:	Originally published in Berlin: Reimer, 1897. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 422 pages)
ISBN:	9781139237345
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139237345