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“... Dirichlet created a new part of mathematics, the application of those infinite series which Fourier has introduced in the theory of heat to the exploration of the properties of the prime numbers. He has discovered a variety of theorems which... are the pillars of new theories.” This is what on December 21, 1846 C. G. J. Jacobi wrote in a letter to Alexander von Humboldt. Today, Dirichlet’s techniques in number theory are more alive than ever.

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Scharlau, W., Opolka, H. (1985). Dirichlet. In: From Fermat to Minkowski. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1867-6_8

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