P. G. Lejeune Dirichlet: Werke Band II Source-Witnessed Working Drafts and English Translations

Abstract

This collection preserves P. G. Lejeune Dirichlet’s mathematical works as original-language working transcriptions, English translations, editable LaTeX, source scans and checking records. Its established core is Werke Band II Papers I–XLI, including the cumulative readers, component sources, correspondence, notices and the R23 correction and repair material. Band I source staging and the historical R27/R28 Paper IV packages are also retained. The collection has mixed editorial status. The Band II readers remain working drafts: Paper XXV still needs complete formula-level repair, and Paper XXVII still needs a typed German source track. Older selected or partial drafts and the retained Public Summary describe historical states. They must not be treated as complete, accuracy-certified editions. The R23 warnings and source witnesses remain part of the collection. Edition update — 21 September 2026. Band I Paper IV, Recherches sur les diviseurs premiers d’une classe de formules du quatrième degré, is now available in complete French and English readers, each covering all 34 author pages 65–98 of the 1889 collected witness. Title and blank leaves 63–64 are preserved separately; Paper V is excluded. A five-page apparatus records printed anomalies without silently repairing the author text. The complete edition archive includes every editable page, the full and scoped source scans, inherited material, page-by-page audit evidence, correction snapshots and build sources. These readers supersede the partial R27/R28 reading coverage for Paper IV; those older packages remain as provenance. Dirichlet is the author of the mathematics. The modern transcription and translation are AI-assisted: ChatGPT Pro compared the text with source images and performed a fresh final source pass; Codex checked the full return, source and repair bindings, rebuilt the readers, compared their text and inspected all 73 rendered pages. This is not independent human peer review or a critical edition across witnesses. Completion applies to Paper IV alone, not either collected volume. Read the Paper IV English PDF in the preview, or choose the French reader and apparatus in the file list. The edition guide explains the current and retained files. Corrections and source comparisons can be proposed through https://github.com/KokunoYumeto/modern-latex-manuscripts. The stable collection identifier is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20520679.