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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, Riemann was made a full professor of Göttingen University. From that day, he occupied the chair earlier graced by Gauss and Dirichlet.
“Nothing stimulates great minds to work on enriching knowledge with such force as the posing of difficult but simultaneously interesting problems.”
J. Bernoulli
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Monastyrsky, M. (1987). A Chair in Göttingen. In: Wells, R.O. (eds) Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3514-4_5
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