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Weierstrass, Karl (Theodor Wilhelm)
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[viyershtrahs]
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| Mathematician, ‘the father of modern analysis’, born in Ostenfelde, W Germany. A failed law student from Bonn, he took a teacher's certificate at Münster and taught mathematics in secondary schools (1842–56) while working privately on analysis. The publication of his memoir on Abelian functions (1854) brought him an honorary doctorate and a post at the Royal Polytechnic School, Berlin. He published relatively little, but became famous for his lectures, in which he gave a systematic account of analysis with previously unknown rigour, inspiring many of his students to become creative mathematicians. |
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