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On May 5,1859 Dirichlet died after a serious illness. The government no longer wavered in its choice of a successor. On July 30 of that year Riemann was made a full professor of Göttingen University. From that time on he occupied the chair earlier graced by Gauss and Dirichlet.
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Indirect, but rather convincing evidence for this assertion is given in the book of Edwards (Ed- wards, H.M. Riemann’s Zeta Function, New York: Academic Press, 1974). Besides Riemann’s close association with Dirichlet, who in turn was personally acquainted with Chebyshev and met him during Chebyshev’s visit to Germany in 1852, it turns out that shortly after the publication of his famous papers Chebyshev’s name appeared in Riemann’s notebooks, which are preserved in the library of the University of Göttingen. A facsimile of the corresponding pages of Riemann’s manuscript is printed in the book of Edwards.
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Monastyrsky, M. (1999). Full Professor in Göttingen. In: Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4779-7_5
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