Das Fotoalbum fr Weierstra / A Photo Album for Weierstrass [Paperback]

Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) was among the leading mathematical figure of the 19th century, a man who had a decisive influence on the way we view analysis today. The centrepiece of this book is the reproduction of a photo album given to Weierstrass in 1885 as a 70th birthday present. The album, which lay hidden in a Berlin museum for over 70 years, contains the portraits of more than 300 students, friends and colleagues from all over Europe, and forms an extraordinary document of the admiration and appreciation shown to him. In an accompanying text, Reinhard B?lling gives interesting details of Weierstrass' life, the lives of those involved in the preparations for his birthday celebrations, and the story of how the album came about.Inhalt: Zur Biographie von Karl Weierstra? - Entstehungsgeschichte des Fotoalbums - Die Geburtstagsfeier - Dokumente (11 Briefe) - Die Portr?ts - Biographische Angaben zu den abgebildeten Personen - Alphabetisches Personenverzeichnis.Dr. Reinhard B?lling ist Mathematiker und Mathematikhistoriker und lehrt an der Universit?t Potsdam.A photo album: snapshots from bygone days. This was the way that students, colleagues and friends of Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897) wanted to thank and congratulate him on his 70th birthday.For the present volume, this historical photo album showing over 340 faces has been reproduced. The text part of the volume is a remarkable historical documentation including - Biographical data about Karl Weierstrass, introducing also the mathematicians involved in organizing the birthday celebration- Story and background of the album - List of people portrayed in the album - Letters from Weierstrass and others, in order to give some of the atmosphere of those days and to let the perfomers of 1885 speak for themselves. Karl Weierstra? (1815-1897) geh?rt zu den f?hrenden Mathematikerpers?nlichkeiten des vorigen Jahrhunderts, der entscheidend das heutige Erscheinungsbild der Analysis gepr?gt hat. Das Kernst?ck des l“›