Dirichlet A Mathematical Biography /

• Main Author: Merzbach, Uta C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Number theory.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Number Theory.

This is the first extensive biography of the influential German mathematician, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 - 1859). Dirichlet made major contributions to number theory in addition to clarifying concepts such as the representation of functions as series, the theory of convergence, and potentia...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Conventions
• Rhineland
• Paris
• First Success
• Return to Prussia
• Early Publications
• Berlin
• Publications: 1829 - 1830
• Maturation
• Publications: Autumn 1832 - Spring 1839
• Expanding Interactions
• Publications: 1839 - 1845
• A Darkling Decade
• Publications: 1846 - 1855
• Göttingen
• Aftermath
• Lectures
• Centennial Legacy and Commentary
• Bibliography
• Index.