Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (German: [ləˈʒœn diʁiˈkleː]; 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician. In number theory, he proved...

sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi–Dirac statistics Johann Dirichlet, German mathematician – Dirichlet function, Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions Walt...

begun with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet's 1837 introduction of Dirichlet L-functions to give the first proof of Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions...

with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and in 1845 defended his dissertation in algebraic number theory written under Dirichlet's supervision. After obtaining...

studied mathematics under Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, while also attending classes of Jakob Steiner and Johann Franz Encke. In 1842 he was awarded a PhD...

considers that "In essence this is the definition that became known as Dirichlet's definition." Edwards also credits Euler with a general concept of a function...

Like the zeta function, Dirichlet series in general play an important role in analytic number theory. Generally a Dirichlet series converges if the real...

known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula. William Kingdon...

algebraic invariants Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician, worked on the Dirichlet principle Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician, named the Lipschitz...

considering partial sums, which Dirichlet transformed into a particular Dirichlet integral involving what is now called the Dirichlet kernel. This paper introduced...