Timeline of Number Theory - 19th Century

19th Century

  • 1801 - Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Carl Friedrich Gauss's number theory treatise, is published in Latin.
  • 1825 - Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove Fermat's Last Theorem for n = 5.
  • 1832 - Lejeune Dirichlet proves Fermat's Last Theorem for n = 14.
  • 1835 - Lejeune Dirichlet proves Dirichlet's theorem about prime numbers in arithmetical progressions.
  • 1859 - Bernhard Riemann formulates the Riemann hypothesis which has strong implications about the distribution of prime numbers.
  • 1896 - Jacques Hadamard and Charles Jean de la VallĂ©e-Poussin independently prove the prime number theorem.
  • 1896 - Hermann Minkowski presents Geometry of numbers.

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