Talk:Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

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Anybody know how to pronounce his name? It would be nice to have pronounciation guides since most of us just read the names of the dead guys...

My last undergrad math prof said /DAYRSH-lay/ which can't be right. I'm tempted to pronounce it French-like, maybe /Day-hreesh-LAY/? We could use an IPA at the head of the article from someone who's certain what's right.

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In Russian we pronounce his name in a French way: without 't' at the end, and 'ch' is pronounced as 'hh'.

Something like [Dee-ree-hlé]. I think it resembles the original pronuciation. Crocodealer 9 July 2005 11:43 (UTC)

I've heard his surname pronounced both as French (dee-ree-SHLEH) and as in German (DEE-rikh-let)... Which is right? --Army1987 22:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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it's ambiguous, since his family is from french-speaking belgium, but he seems to have lived in german-speaking areas (Düren, Berlin, Göttingen).

the french way would be to pronounce the "ch" as english's "sh". the german way would be as a "k". one website claims the french way, but more credible sites (including wikipedia at present) use the german way

[edit] Primes in an arithmetic sequence

Dirichlet is famous for proving that there are infinitely many primes in any arithmetic sequence where the terms are relatively prime. The guy started analytic number theory... there should be some mention of that. --Dantheox 04:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)