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In September 1855, a month before the beginning of fall classes, the “Göttingische Gelehrten Anzeigen” made public what was already common knowledge in the small university town: the appointment of the mathematician from Berlin to the professorship of mathematics at the Georgia-Augusta University.
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Küssner 1982.
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Bjerknes 1915:212–223 (Anmerkungen).
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Riemann 1857; see Riemann 1953:97.
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Dedekind 1930–32 (1969), 1:67
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Michelmann 1929:110.
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Joachim 1911–13 1:294–95.
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Michelmann 1929:40.
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Her fondness for life in Berlin stood in marked contrast to the feelings of her brother Felix who disliked the city.
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Joachim 1911–13 1:418.
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Varnhagen 1861–70, 13:39.
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Varnhagen 1861–70, 13:43.
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Berlin. Dirichlet Nachlass. Correspondence.
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Werke 2:388–411; Kronecker 1930 (1968): 407–32; originally, Kronecker 1885b.
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For references to the long history of publications concerning the sum of four squares, see Dickson 1919–23 (2005) 2: Chapter 8.
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Kronecker Werke 2:428.
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See Chapter 15, 1861.
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Biermann 1971 contains a summary of Dirichlet’s notes on Gauss, which give us a glimpse of “what might have been.”
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Scharlau, ed. 1981:56.
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Scharlau, W., ed. 1981:55.
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Joachim 1911–13 2:39.
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As found in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”; Arnold had spent a brief period in the early 1850s in the environs of Göttingen with his bride.
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Merzbach, U.C. (2018). Göttingen. In: Dirichlet. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01073-7_14
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