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Riemann’s scholarly achievements were greeted rather coolly by his colleagues and, more importantly, by the university administration. The successor of Gauss (who had died in 1855) was Riemann’s old friend Dirichlet. It was Dirichlet who, with great difficulty, succeeded in obtaining a small paid post in the department for Riemann. Not until November of 1857 did Riemann obtain the position of assistant professor. The years of Riemann’s collaboration with Dirichlet (1855–1859) were by far his most productive. Illness had not yet undermined his strength, and the opportunity to pursue his own investigations was all that Riemann required for complete happiness.
“Gentlemen, we do not have time for Gaussian rigor.” Carl Jacobi
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In topology a one-to-one continuous mapping having a continuous inverse is called a homeomorphism.
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Monastyrsky, M. (1999). Riemann and Dirichlet. In: Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4779-7_4
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