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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
British mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Felix Klein
German mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
George David Birkhoff
American mathematician

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