Weierstrass, Karl, 1815-1897.

Biographical Note: Karl Weierstrass was a German mathematician.

He was born in Osterfelde, Westphalia Germany in 1815 and graduated from the Theological and Philosophical Academy at Muünster in 1841. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin. In 1856, he was elected to the Berlin Academy. His major contributions to the field of mathematics were his new elaborations and new applications of the Abelian functions. Some circulating copies of his lectures were produced until 1894 when the first of seven volumes of his "Mathematische Werke" was published. Karl Weierstrass died in Berlin in 1897.

From the description of Karl Weierstrass lectures, 1879. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48394889