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We discuss and examine Weierstrass' main contributions to approximation theory. 2000 Academic Press 1. WEIERSTRASS This is a story about Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass (Weierstra? ), what he contributed to approximation theory (and why), and some of the consequences thereof. We start this story by relating a little about the man and his life. Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass was born on October 31, 1815, at Ostenfelde near Mu nster into a liberal (in the political sense) Catholic family. He was the eldest of four children, none of whom married. Weierstrass was a very successful gymnasium student and was subsequently sent by his father to the University of Bonn to study commerce and law. His father seems to have had in mind a government post for his son. However neither commerce nor law was to his liking, and he ``wasted'' four years there, not graduating. Beer and fencing seem to have been fairly high on his priority list at the time. The young Weierstrass returned home, and after a period of ``rest'', was sent to the Academy at Mu nster where he obtained a teacher's certificate. At the Academy he fortuitously came under the tutelage and personal guidance of C. Gudermann who was

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Author

Allan Pinkus

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0021-9045)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Mathematics (Physical Sciences)