14 Facts About Karl Weierstrass

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis".

Karl Weierstrass later received an honorary doctorate and became professor of mathematics in Berlin.

Karl Weierstrass was born into a Roman Catholic family in Ostenfelde, a village near Ennigerloh, in the Province of Westphalia.

Karl Weierstrass was the son of Wilhelm Karl Weierstrass, a government official, and Theodora Vonderforst both of whom were Catholic Rhinelanders.

Karl Weierstrass's interest in mathematics began while he was a gymnasium student at the Theodorianum in Paderborn.

Karl Weierstrass was sent to the University of Bonn upon graduation to prepare for a government position.

Karl Weierstrass resolved the conflict by paying little heed to his planned course of study but continuing private study in mathematics.

Karl Weierstrass then studied mathematics at the Munster Academy and his father was able to obtain a place for him in a teacher training school in Munster.

In 1870, at the age of fifty-five, Karl Weierstrass met Sofia Kovalevsky whom he tutored privately after failing to secure her admission to the university.

Karl Weierstrass was immobile for the last three years of his life, and died in Berlin from pneumonia.

Karl Weierstrass was interested in the soundness 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.

Karl Weierstrass saw the importance of the concept, and both formalized it and applied it widely throughout the foundations of calculus.

The formal definition of continuity of a function, as formulated by Karl Weierstrass, is as follows:.

Karl Weierstrass made advances in the field of calculus of variations.