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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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Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
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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
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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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Leonhard Euler
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
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Louis Nirenberg
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