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Dirichlet enjoyed his time in Göttingen as the lighter teaching load allowed him more time for research and, also, he got in close contact with the new generation of researchers, especially Richard Dedekind and Bernhard Riemann.

After moving to Göttingen he was able to obtain a small annual payment for Riemann in order to retain him in the teaching staff there.

Dedekind, Riemann, Moritz Cantor and Alfred Enneper, although they had all already earned their PhDs, attended Dirichlet's classes to study with him.

Dedekind, who felt that there were significant gaps at the time in his mathematics education, considered that the occasion to study with Dirichlet made him " a new human being ".

He later edited and published Dirichlet's lectures and other results in number theory under the title ( Lectures on Number Theory ).