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Franz Mertens studied at Berlin with Kronecker and Kummer. In 1865 he obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on potential theory.
He worked first in Krakóv, then in Graz, then from 1894 in Vienna.
Mertens was a number theorist who is best remembered for his elementary proof of the Dirichlet theorem which appears in most modern textbooks. He worked on analytic number theory and algebra.
Texto original por: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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