Karl Weierstrass - Definition and Overview

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.

Karl Weierstraß

See also

• Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem
  • Heine-Borel 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://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.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/).