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Karl Weierstraß
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.
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science · German mathematician (1815–1897) · mathematician · university teacher · physicist · also Karl Weierstraß, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß, Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass, Weierstraß
Born 31 October 1815 · Died 19 February 1897 · Q57103
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1897· 4 entries
Died 1897-02-19.
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“... es ist wahr, ein Mathematiker, der nicht etwas Poet ist, wird nimmer ein vollkommener Mathematiker sein.”
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“Llegar a una correcta comprensión de los fundamentos de la ciencia es el objetivo final que hay que tener siempre presente; pero para hacer cualquier progreso en ciencia es imprescindible estudiar problemas concretos.”
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“Original: «Es ist wahr, ein Mathematiker, der nicht etwas Poet ist, wird nimmer ein vollkommener Mathematiker sein.”
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1895· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1895).
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1892· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (1892).
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1891· 1 entry
Kovalevskaya corresponded with Weierstrass
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1887· 1 entry
Won Cothenius Medal (1887).
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1885· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1885).
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1883· 1 entry
Upon her appointment as Privatdocent at Stockholm University
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1881· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1881).
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1870· 1 entry
At the age of fifty-five, Weierstrass met Sofia Kovalevskaya whom he tutored privately after failing to secure her admission to the university
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1864· 1 entry
Became professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, which later became the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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1856· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Königsberg (1856).
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Took a chair at the Gewerbeinstitut in Berlin (an institute to educate technical workers, which would later merge with the Bauakademie to form the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg; now Technische Universität Be
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1854· 1 entry
Studied at University of Königsberg (1854).
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1843· 1 entry
Taught in Deutsch Krone in West Prussia, and from 1848 he taught at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg
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1840· 1 entry
Studied at University of Münster (1838–1840).
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1838· 1 entry
Studied at University of Bonn (1834–1838).
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1834· 1 entry
Studied at Gymnasium Theodorianum (1829–1834).
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1815· 1 entry
Born 1815-10-31.
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