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whom he tutored privately after failing to secure her admission to the university. They had a fruitful intellectual, and kindly personal relationship that "far transcended the usual teacher-student relationship". He mentored her for four years, and regarded her as his best student, helping to secure
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upon graduation to prepare for a government position. Because his studies were to be in the fields of law, economics, and finance, he was immediately in conflict with his hopes to study mathematics. He resolved the conflict by paying little heed to his planned course of study but continuing private
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Cauchy argued that the (pointwise) limit of (pointwise) continuous functions was itself (pointwise) continuous, a statement that is false in general. The correct statement is rather that the
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From 1870 until her death in 1891, Kovalevsky corresponded with Weierstrass. Upon learning of her death, he burned her letters. About 150 of his letters to her have been preserved. Professor
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of calculus, and at the time there were somewhat ambiguous definitions of the foundations of calculus so that important theorems could not be proven with sufficient rigour. Although
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as early as 1817 (and possibly even earlier) his work remained unknown to most of the mathematical community until years later, and many mathematicians had only vague definitions of
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a doctorate for her from Heidelberg University without the need for an oral thesis defense. He was immobile for the last three years of his life, and died in Berlin from
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of continuous functions is continuous (also, the uniform limit of uniformly continuous functions is uniformly continuous). This required the concept of
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After 1850 Weierstrass suffered from a long period of illness, but was able to publish mathematical articles that brought him fame and distinction. The
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in the 1820s. Cauchy did not clearly distinguish between continuity and uniform continuity on an interval. Notably, in his 1821
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Weierstrass was the son of Wilhelm Weierstrass, a government official, and Theodora Vonderforst both of whom were Catholic
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discovered the draft of the letter she wrote to Weierstrass when she arrived in Stockholm in 1883 upon her appointment as
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study in mathematics. The outcome was that he left the university without a degree. He then studied mathematics at the
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The formal definition of continuity of a function, as formulated by Weierstrass, is as follows:
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and used it to study the properties of continuous functions on closed and bounded intervals.
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Weierstrass may have had an illegitimate child named Franz with the widow of his friend
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in Berlin (an institute to educate technical workers which would later merge with the
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Résumé des leçons données à l'école royale polytechnique sur le calcul infinitésimal
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Relation qui existe entre le rapport aux différences finies et la fonction dérivée"
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The Kowalevski Property (Leeds, 2000) CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes, vol. 32
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Among many other contributions, Weierstrass formalized the definition of the
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Elstrodt, Jürgen (2016), König, Wolfgang; Sprekels, Jürgen (eds.),
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The Hutchinson unabridged encyclopedia with atlas and weather guide
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Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm. (2018). In Helicon (Ed.),
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Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Digitalized versions of Weierstrass's original publications
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7. Auflage. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 2015,
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Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
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on him on 31 March 1854. In 1856 he took a chair at the
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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are freely available online from the library of the
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Vorl. ueber die Theorie der Abelschen Transcendenten
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had developed a reasonably rigorous definition of a
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Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
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Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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American Mathematical Soc. pp. 1–19. 1422:Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 1231: 1539:Biermann, Kurt-R.; Schubring, Gert (1996). 1469: 1467: 1398:List of things named after Karl Weierstrass 1238:List of things named after Karl Weierstrass 1869: 1855: 1589:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 34: 1211: 1657: 1496: 1464: 1325:are named after him. Also, there is the 626: 1806:MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive 2326:People from the Province of Westphalia 2298: 2163:Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz 1706: 1850: 1306: 1200:Using this definition, he proved the 1013:{\displaystyle \displaystyle x=x_{0}} 745:{\displaystyle \displaystyle x=x_{0}} 477:family in Ostenfelde, a village near 413: 2366:Foreign members of the Royal Society 1339:Zur Theorie der Abelschen Funktionen 1289:Weierstrass–Enneper parameterization 1387:, Math. Werke. Bd. 7. 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Index


Ennigerloh
Province of Westphalia
Kingdom of Prussia
Berlin
German Empire
University of Bonn
Münster Academy
Weierstrass function
Weierstrass product inequality
(ε, δ)-definition of limit
Weierstrass–Erdmann condition
Weierstrass theorems
Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem
PhD (Hon)
University of Königsberg
Copley Medal
Mathematics
Gewerbeinstitut
Friedrich Wilhelm University
Christoph Gudermann
Nikolai Bugaev
Georg Cantor
Georg Frobenius
Lazarus Fuchs
Wilhelm Killing
Johannes Knoblauch
Leo Königsberger
Ernst Kötter
Sofia Kovalevskaya

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