The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Gustav Dirichlet

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## Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet

Biography MathSciNet

Honorary Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1827
Dissertation: Partial Results on Fermat's Last Theorem, Exponent 5 (He studied with Poisson and Fourier before returning to Germany)
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11—Number theory

Advisor 1: Simeon Denis Poisson
Advisor 2: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Students:
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Name | School | Year | Descendants
--- | --- | --- | ---
Ferdinand Eisenstein | Universität Berlin | 1845 |
August Kramer | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 1839 |
Leopold Kronecker | Universität Berlin | 1845 | 3598
Rudolf Lipschitz | Universität Berlin | 1853 | 35138
Gustav Michaelis | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 1837 |
Johann Roethig | Universität Berlin | 1857 |
Leo Wituski | Universität Berlin | 1853 |

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