Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician who made deep contributions to number theory (including creating the field of analytic 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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13 February 1805 Düren
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5 May 1859 (aged 54) Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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