Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet

Biography


Honorary Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1827 Germany
Dissertation: Partial Results on Fermat's Last Theorem, Exponent 5 (He studied with Poisson and Fourier before returning to Germany)
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11—Number theory

Advisor 1: Simeon Denis Poisson
Advisor 2: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Student(s):
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NameSchoolYearDescendants
Ferdinand EisensteinUniversität Berlin1845
Leopold KroneckerUniversität Berlin18453093
Rudolf LipschitzUniversität Berlin185335752
Johann RoethigUniversität Berlin1857
Leo WituskiHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin1853

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