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Karl Weierstrass

Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (d. 1897)

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass 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.

31 October 1815

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