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Dirichlet’s death had an impact on his family, his colleagues and friends, and the future composition of several mathematics departments, notably those in Berlin and Göttingen.
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Baum 1950.
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For references concerning the upkeep of the cemetery, see Kühn 1999:155–56.
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Despite Nelson’s efforts, the Dirichlet Nachlass was subsequently split and ended up in various locations. This was primarily due to attempts to safeguard it from confiscation by the regime of the Third Reich. For details, see [Schubring 1986]. Current holdings in Berlin, Göttingen, and Kassel are referenced in our bibliography.
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For further details, see [Lowenthal-Hensel 1983].
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Lützen 1990:215–17.
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Kronecker clarified this in [Kronecker 1888b]; see Kronecker Werke 5:473–76.
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Heine 1861:266.
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She provided an amusing example of Heine’s unexpected (but lasting) reaction to a new encounter, when, at the time of Heine’s announced engagement in 1850 to a young woman he had only known for twenty-four hours, she had commented to Sebastian Hensel, in a letter which Sebastian would cite: “What do you say about the engagement per steam of Eduard Heine? I think the calendar listing his due dates had an entry ‘4 April: Engagement.’ Otherwise it is incomprehensible how that pedantic man could have arrived at such a hasty decision. By the way, the girl is pretty.” Hensel, S. 1904:114.
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Referring to a listing in the DSB, the authors in Lipschitz’s MacTutor biography note as “perhaps the most remarkable fact” about his research that “he worked in areas as diverse as number theory, theory of Bessel functions and of Fourier series, ordinary and partial differential equations, and analytical mechanics and potential theory.” We note that these are precisely the areas to which Dirichlet had contributed, making the diversity of Lipschitz’s interests less surprising.
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See our Chapter 12.
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See, for example, Kronecker 1865, 1885a, 1885b, 1888a, 1888b, 1890.
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He expressed this succinctly in his “Antrittsrede” when elected to the Akademie. See Kronecker Werke, 5:387–89.
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It takes us beyond the bounds of this volume to go into details on this subject, but see that letter and Helmut Hasse’s analysis found in Kronecker Werke, vol. 5:453 and 510–15, respectively.
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Küssner 1982.
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Klein 1927 (1956:99).
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Merzbach, U.C. (2018). Aftermath. In: Dirichlet. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01073-7_15
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