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Ideas of Karl Weierstrass, by Text

[German, 1815 - 1897, A school teacher.]

1855 works
p.98 Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Bostock]
p.259 Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Kitcher]