1815 - 1897
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (German: Weierstraß [ˈvaɪɐʃtʁaːs]; 31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics and trained as a school teacher, eventually teaching mathematics, physics, botany and gymnastics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Weierstrass has received more than 594,958 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Karl Weierstrass is the 52nd most popular mathematician (up from 58th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Germany (down from 283rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Mathematician.
Karl Weierstrass is most famous for proving that every continuous function on the real line can be uniformly approximated by polynomials.
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Among mathematicians, Karl Weierstrass ranks 52 out of 823. Before him are Sophie Germain, Claude Shannon, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Norbert Wiener, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, and Philolaus. After him are Sofia Kovalevskaya, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Gaspard Monge, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Abraham de Moivre, and Brahmagupta.
1776 - 1831
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 46
1916 - 2001
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 47
1718 - 1799
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 48
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 49
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 50
470 BC - 390 BC
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 51
1815 - 1897
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 52
1850 - 1891
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 53
1792 - 1856
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 54
1746 - 1818
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 55
940 - 998
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 56
1667 - 1754
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 57
598 - 670
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 58
Among people born in 1815, Karl Weierstrass ranks 5. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, John Bosco, George Boole, and Ada Lovelace. After him are Otto of Greece, Adolph Menzel, Thomas Couture, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Louis-Jules Trochu, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Ildefons Cerdà. Among people deceased in 1897, Karl Weierstrass ranks 3. Before him are Johannes Brahms and Thérèse of Lisieux. After him are Jacob Burckhardt, Alphonse Daudet, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Edward Drinker Cope, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, James Joseph Sylvester, Albert Marth, and Jiroemon Kimura.
1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
Rank: 1
1815 - 1888
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 2
1815 - 1864
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 3
1815 - 1852
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 4
1815 - 1897
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 5
1815 - 1867
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 6
1815 - 1905
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 7
1815 - 1879
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 8
1815 - 1887
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 9
1815 - 1896
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 10
1815 - 1879
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 11
1815 - 1876
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 12
1833 - 1897
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 1
1873 - 1897
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 2
1815 - 1897
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 3
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 4
1840 - 1897
HPI: 68.61
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1837 - 1897
HPI: 68.14
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1831 - 1897
HPI: 66.77
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1840 - 1897
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 8
1847 - 1897
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 9
1814 - 1897
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 10
1828 - 1897
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 11
1897 - 1897
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Karl Weierstrass ranks 285 out of 6,142. Before him are Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Constanze Mozart (1762), Michael Haneke (1942), August Kekulé (1829), Georgius Agricola (1494), and Karl May (1842). After him are Sepp Dietrich (1892), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Christian I of Denmark (1426), Einhard (770), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887).
1567 - 1625
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 279
1762 - 1842
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 280
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 281
1829 - 1896
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 282
1494 - 1555
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 283
1842 - 1912
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 284
1815 - 1897
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 285
1892 - 1966
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 286
1596 - 1632
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 287
1426 - 1481
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 288
770 - 840
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 289
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 290
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 291
Among mathematicians born in Germany, Karl Weierstrass ranks 7. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), and Emmy Noether (1882). After him are August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), and Friedrich Bessel (1784).
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 1
1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
Rank: 2
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
Rank: 3
1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 4
1848 - 1925
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 5
1882 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 6
1815 - 1897
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 7
1790 - 1868
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 8
1540 - 1610
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 9
1831 - 1916
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 10
1436 - 1476
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 11
1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 12
1784 - 1846
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 13