Karl Weierstrass, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Weierstrass

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1815

Place of Birth: Ostenfelde, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1897

Profession: teacher, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (German: Weierstraß ['va???t?a?s]; 31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897) 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 teacher, eventually teaching mathematics, physics, botany and gymnastics.Weierstrass formalized the definition of the continuity of a function, proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals.