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May 5, 1859. Peter Gustav Lejeune Oirichlet died.—The successor of Gauss at Göttingen, Dirichlet did original work on the theory of numbers and Fourier's theorem, and wrote on the discoveries of Gauss and Jacobi.
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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 107, 317 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107317a0
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