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Karl Weierstrass
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Karl Weierstrass
Alma mater
University of Bonn
Mnster Academy
Academic advisors
Christoph Gudermann
Doctoral students
Nikolai Bugaev
Georg Cantor
Georg Frobenius
Lazarus Fuchs
Wilhelm Killing
Leo Knigsberger
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Mathias Lerch
Hans von Mangoldt
Eugen Netto
Adolf Piltz
Carl Runge
Arthur Schoenflies
Friedrich Schottky
Hermann Schwarz
Ludwig Stickelberger
Ernst Ktter
Knownfor
Weierstrass function
(, )-definition of limit
WeierstrassErdmann condition
Weierstrass theorem
Notable awards
PhD (Hon):
University of Knigsberg (1854)
Copley Medal (1895)
Soundness of calculus
2.2
Calculus of variations
2.3
Other analytical theorems
3
Students
4
Honours and awards
5
Selected works
6
See also
7
References
8
External links
Biography[edit]
Technical University of Berlin. In 1864 he became professor at the FriedrichWilhelms-Universitt Berlin, which later became the Humboldt Universitt zu
Berlin. He was immobile for the last three years of his life, and died in Berlin
from pneumonia.
Mathematical contributions[edit]
Soundness of calculus[edit]
x=x
0
>
0
>
0
{\displaystyle \displaystyle \forall \ \varepsilon >0\ \exists \ \delta >0}
such that for every
x {\displaystyle x}
in the domain of
f {\displaystyle f}
,
|xx
0
|<|f(x)f(x
0
x=x
0
>
0
>
0
f ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)}
lies between
f(x
0
) {\displaystyle f(x_{0})-\varepsilon }
and
f(x
0
) + {\displaystyle f(x_{0})+\varepsilon }
when
x {\displaystyle x}
is between
x
0
{\displaystyle x_{0}-\delta }
and
x
0
+ {\displaystyle x_{0}+\delta }
.
Using this definition, he proved the Intermediate Value Theorem. He also
proved the BolzanoWeierstrass theorem and used it to study the properties
of continuous functions on closed and bounded intervals.
Calculus of variations[edit]
Weierstrass also made significant advancements in the field of calculus of
variations. Using the apparatus of analysis that he helped to develop,
Weierstrass was able to give a complete reformulation of the theory which
paved the way for the modern study of the calculus of variations. Among the
several significant axioms, Weierstrass established a necessary condition for
the existence of strong extrema of variational problems. He also helped
devise the WeierstrassErdmann condition, which gives sufficient conditions
for an extremal to have a corner along a given extrema, and allows one to
find a minimizing curve for a given integral.
Students[edit]
Edmund Husserl
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Gsta Mittag-Leffler
Hermann Schwarz
Carl Johannes Thomae
Georg Cantor
Selected works[edit]
^ Jump up to:
a b O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. (October 1998). "Karl Theodor Wilhelm
Weierstrass". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews,
Scotland. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
Jump up
^ Biermann, Kurt-R.; Schubring, Gert (1996). "Einige Nachtrge zur
Biographie von Karl Weierstra. (German) [Some postscripts to the
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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Richard Owen (1851) Alexander von Humboldt (1852) Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
(1853) Johannes Peter Mller (1854) Lon Foucault (1855) Henri Milne-Edwards
(1856) Michel Eugne Chevreul (1857) Charles Lyell (1858) Wilhelm Eduard Weber
(1859) Robert Bunsen (1860) Louis Agassiz (1861) Thomas Graham (1862) Adam
Sedgwick (1863) Charles Darwin (1864) Michel Chasles (1865) Julius Plcker
(1866) Karl Ernst von Baer (1867) Charles Wheatstone (1868) Henri Victor
Regnault (1869) James Prescott Joule (1870) Julius Robert von Mayer (1871)
Friedrich Whler (1872) Hermann von Helmholtz (1873) Louis Pasteur (1874)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1875) Claude Bernard (1876) James Dwight Dana
(1877) Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1878) Rudolf Clausius (1879) James Joseph
Sylvester (1880) Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1881) Arthur Cayley (1882) William
Thomson (1883) Carl Ludwig (1884) Friedrich August Kekul von Stradonitz (1885)
Franz Ernst Neumann (1886) Joseph Dalton Hooker (1887) Thomas Henry Huxley
(1888) George Salmon (1889) Simon Newcomb (1890) Stanislao Cannizzaro
(1891) Rudolf Virchow (1892) George Gabriel Stokes (1893) Edward Frankland
(1894) Karl Weierstrass (1895) Karl Gegenbaur (1896) Albert von Klliker (1897)
William Huggins (1898) John William Strutt (1899) Marcellin Berthelot (1900)
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