Weierstrass’s Construction of the Irrational Numbers
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We present an overview of the development of the irrational numbers due to Karl Weierstrass. This construction was first presented during lectures in the 1860s in Berlin. Weierstrass never published his construction. Several of his students (Kossak, Horwitz, von Dantscher and Pincherle, to name a few) gave accounts in lecture notes from the courses. However, these notes were not published under the direction of Weierstrass.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012