Das Fotoalbum Fur Weierstrass / A Photo Album for Weierstrass

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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 Weierstrass (1815-1897) gehoert zu den fuhrenden Mathematikerpersoenlichkeiten des vorigen Jahrhunderts, der entscheidend das heutige Erscheinungsbild der Analysis gepragt hat. Das Kernstuck des Buches bildet die Reproduktion eines Fotoalbums, das Weierstrass 1885 zu seinem 70. Geburtstag als Geschenk uberreicht wurde. Das Album, das uber 70 Jahre unbemerkt in einem Berliner Museum geschlummert hatte, enthalt die Portrats von mehr als 300 Schulern, Freunden und Kollegen aus ganz Europa - ein ausserordentliches Zeitdokument