Karl Weierstrass: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
Born October 31, 1815 • Germany
Died February 19, 1897 (aged 81) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1895)
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Edward Charles Titchmarsh
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
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Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
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Charles-François Sturm
Charles-François Sturm
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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
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Felix Klein
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
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Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
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Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
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Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Joseph Liouville
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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
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George David Birkhoff
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