Karl Weierstra
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß (October 31, 1815 – February 19, 1897) was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis". (The letter ß may be transliterated as ss; one often writes Weierstrass.) He was born in Ostenfelde, Westphalia (today Germany) and died in Berlin, Germany.
See also
- Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem
- Stone-Weierstrass theorem
- Weierstrass-Casorati theorem
- Weierstrass's elliptic functions
- Weierstrass function
- Weierstrass M-test
- Weierstrass preparation theorem
- Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem
External links
- Biography (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Weierstrass.html)
- University of St Andrews' page (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weierstrass.html)
- Weierstraß' students (http://hcoonce.math.mankato.msus.edu/html/id.phtml?id=7486)
- Digitalized versions of Weierstraß' original publications (http://www.bbaw.de/bibliothek/digital/struktur/autoren/weierstr/treffer.htm) are freely available online from the library of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (http://www.bbaw.de/bibliothek/digital/).
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