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Born February 13, 1805 • Düren • Germany
Died May 5, 1859 (aged 54) • Göttingen • Germany
Subjects Of Study Dirichlet problem • Dirichlet’s test • Dirichlet’s theorem • function
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Ernst Eduard Kummer
German mathematician
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Sophie Germain
French mathematician
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician

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