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Legendre guessed the formula and Gauss attained instant fame by proving it. Finding generalizations, for example for rings of algebraic integers, or other proofs was a national sport for the German dynasty created by Gauss until the rest of the world, from Japanese Takagi in 1920 to Chevalley some ten years later, discovered the topic, and after 1935, expanded it.
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Godement, R. (2015). The Dirichlet Series \(L(s; \mathcal{X})\) . In: Analysis IV. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16907-1_11
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