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Lejeune Dirichlet

was born 219 years ago

13 February 1805

Lejeune Dirichlet is best known for his proof that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dirichlet/