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    Riemann made important contributions to real analysis, number theory, and complex analysis. In real analysis, he discovered the Riemann integral and showed that piecewise continuous functions are integrable. In number theory, his 1859 paper introduced the Riemann zeta function and the Riemann hypothesis about the distribution of prime numbers. He also proved the functional equation for the zeta function and gave an exact formula for the prime counting function.

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    Riemann made important contributions to real analysis, number theory, and complex analysis. In real analysis, he discovered the Riemann integral and showed that piecewise continuous functions are integrable. In number theory, his 1859 paper introduced the Riemann zeta function and the Riemann hypothesis about the distribution of prime numbers. He also proved the functional equation for the zeta function and gave an exact formula for the prime counting function.

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    Riemann made important contributions to real analysis, number theory, and complex analysis. In real analysis, he discovered the Riemann integral and showed that piecewise continuous functions are integrable. In number theory, his 1859 paper introduced the Riemann zeta function and the Riemann hypothesis about the distribution of prime numbers. He also proved the functional equation for the zeta function and gave an exact formula for the prime counting function.

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    In the field of real analysis, he discovered the Riemann integral in his habilitation.

    Among other
    things, he showed that every piecewise continuous function is integrable. Similarly, the Stieltjes
    integral goes back to the Göttinger mathematician, and so they are named together the Riemann–
    Stieltjes integral.

    In his habilitation work on Fourier series, where he followed the work of his teacher Dirichlet, he
    showed that Riemann-integrable functions are "representable" by Fourier series. Dirichlet has shown
    this for continuous, piecewise-differentiable functions (thus with countably many non-differentiable
    points). Riemann gave an example of a Fourier series representing a continuous, almost nowhere-
    differentiable function, a case not covered by Dirichlet. He also proved the Riemann–Lebesgue
    lemma: if a function is representable by a Fourier series, then the Fourier coefficients go to zero for
    large n.

    Riemann's essay was also the starting point for Georg Cantor's work with Fourier series, which was
    the impetus for set theory.

    He also worked with hypergeometric differential equations in 1857 using complex analytical methods
    and presented the solutions through the behavior of closed paths about singularities (described by the
    monodromy matrix). The proof of the existence of such differential equations by previously known
    monodromy matrices is one of the Hilbert problems.

    Number theory
    Riemann made some famous contributions to modern analytic number theory. In a single short
    paper, the only one he published on the subject of number theory, he investigated the zeta function
    that now bears his name, establishing its importance for understanding the distribution of prime
    numbers. The Riemann hypothesis was one of a series of conjectures he made about the function's
    properties.

    In Riemann's work, there are many more interesting developments. He proved the functional
    equation for the zeta function (already known to Leonhard Euler), behind which a theta function lies.
    Through the summation of this approximation function over the non-trivial zeros on the line with real
    portion 1/2, he gave an exact, "explicit formula" for .

    Riemann knew of Pafnuty Chebyshev's work on the Prime Number Theorem. He had visited Dirichlet
    in 1852.

    Writings
    Riemann's works include:

    1851 – Grundlagen für eine allgemeine Theorie der Functionen einer veränderlichen complexen
    Grösse, Inauguraldissertation, Göttingen, 1851.
    1857 – Theorie der Abelschen Functionen, Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Bd.
    54. S. 101–155.
    1859 – Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Größe, in: Monatsberichte der
    Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin, November 1859, S. 671ff. With Riemann's
    conjecture. Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse. (Wikisource),
    Facsimile of the manuscript (http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/riemann1859.pdf) with
    Clay Mathematics.

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