Karl Weierstraß

Also known as Karl Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß, Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

German mathematician (1815–1897)

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Karl Weierstraß was a German mathematician from the 1800s who made important contributions to understanding calculus and mathematical analysis. His rigorous methods for proving mathematical concepts helped establish modern standards for how mathematicians demonstrate that their ideas are correct.

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Born: 1815
Died: 1897
Works: 26

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Zur theorie der eindeutigen analytischen functionen
Jacob Steiner
Journal Für Die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik. Band 95
Functionenlehre
Formeln und Lehrsätze Zum Gebrauche der Elliptischen Functionen

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1842-02-25
Active to: 1912-03-30

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Instance of: human
Given name: Wilhelm
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Prussia
Place of death: Berlin
Occupation: physicist
Educated at: University of Königsberg
Languages spoken: German
Doctoral advisor: Christoph Gudermann
Doctoral student: Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt
Field of work: elliptic function
Image: Karl Weierstrass 2.jpg

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member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Commons category: Karl Weierstraß
date of birth: 1815-10-31
date of death: 1897-02-19
student: Alfred Pringsheim
cause of death: pneumonia
birth name: Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Karl Weierstrass
name in native language: Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß
writing language: German
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archives at: Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

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Encyclopedic overview

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (/ˈvaɪərˌstrɑːs, -ˌʃtrɑːs/; German: Weierstraß [ˈvaɪɐʃtʁaːs]; 31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics and trained as a school teacher, eventually teaching mathematics, physics, botany and gymnastics. He later received an honorary doctorate and became professor of mathematics in Berlin.

Among many other contributions, Weierstrass formalized the definition of the continuity of a function and complex analysis, proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals.

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