Lejeune Dirichlet and the birth of analytic number theory: 1837-1839
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Lejeune Dirichlet and the birth of analytic number theory: 1837-1839
zbMATH Open document ID: 0681.01007
DOI: 10.1007/BF03025876
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Following a brief account of Dirichlet's result on infinitely many primes in arithmetic progressions, the paper deals mostly with his career. Briefly mentioned are the Mendelssohn connection and the work of A. L. Crelle. Principal sources are E. Kummer, F. Klein and K.-R. Biermann.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11-03
zbMATH DE Number: 4114576
zbMATH Keywords: primes in arithmetic progressions
zbMATH Keywords: Mendelssohn connection
zbMATH Keywords: A. L. Crelle
zbMATH Keywords: E. Kummer
zbMATH Keywords: F. Klein
author: Allen L. Shields
reviewed by: Edward J. Barbeau
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Q3257086
cites work: Q5772619
cites work: Gauss, Dirichlet, and the law of biquadratic reciprocity
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03025876
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4114576