tailieunhanh - Analytic Number Theory A Tribute to Gauss and Dirichlet Part 2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'analytic number theory a tribute to gauss and dirichlet part 2', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 12 JURGEN ELSTRODT 5. Transfer to Berlin and Marriage Aiming at Dirichlet s transfer to Berlin A. von Humboldt sent copies of Bessel s enthusiastic letter to Minister von Altenstein and to Major . von Radowitz 1797-1853 at that time teacher at the Military School in Berlin. At the same time Fourier tried to bring Dirichlet back to Paris since he considered Dirichlet to be the right candidate to occupy a leading role in the French Academy. It does not seem to be known however whether Fourier really had an offer of a definite position for Dirichlet. Dirichlet chose Berlin at that time a medium-sized city with 240000 inhabitants with dirty streets without pavements without street lightning without a sewage system without public water supply but with many beautiful gardens. A. von Humboldt recommended Dirichlet to Major von Radowitz and to the minister of war for a vacant post at the Military School. At first there were some reservations to installing a young man just 23 years of age for the instruction of officers. Hence Dirichlet was first employed on probation only. At the same time he was granted leave for one year from his duties in Breslau. During this time his salary was paid further on from Breslau in addition he received 600 talers per year from the Military School. The trial period was successful and the leave from Breslau was extended twice so that he never went back there. From the very beginning Dirichlet also had applied for permission to give lectures at the University of Berlin and in 1831 he was formally transferred to the philosophical faculty of the University of Berlin with the further duty to teach at the Military School. There were however strange formal oddities about his legal status at the University of Berlin which will be dealt with in sect. 7. In the same year 1831 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin and upon confirmation by the king the election became effective in 1832. At that time the 27-year-old Dirichlet was .