Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß (October 31, 1815 - February 19, 1897) was a German mathematician who is oft cited as the "father of modern analysis". He was born in Ostenfelde, Westphalia (today Germany) and died in Berlin, Germany. See also: Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem Heine-Borel theorem Stone-Weierstrass theorem Weierstrass-Casorati theorem Weierstrass function Weierstrass M-test Weierstrass preparation theorem Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem External links Biography University of St Andrews' page Weierstraß' students This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.