Lejeune Dirichlet and the birth of analytic number theory: 1837-1839
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.
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