Peter G.L. Dirichlet was born in the time period of Napoleon’s great attempt at world domination, Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration, and the birth of Webster’s dictionary. Ultimately this period of time is known as the 1800s, and Peter G.L. Dirichlet was born in 1805. Dirichlet was not born into great wealth, (nor are many others, in this day and age either) his father was a postmaster in Germany where Dirichlet and his family lived. Though they didn’t have much spare change, it was recorded that