Dieser Band enthalt die Vorlesung Ausgewahlte Kapitel aus der Funktionenlehre, die Karl Weierstrass im Sommersemester 1886 an der Berliner Universitat gehalten hat. Sie war von ihm als Erganzung seiner turnusmassigen Vorlesung "Einleitung in die Theorie der analytischen Funktionen" konzipiert worden, und er hielt sie nur dieses eine Mal. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte sind der Weierstrasssche Approximationssatz (mit Verallgemeinerungen auf unstetige Funktionen mittels des Cantorschen Begriffs des ausseren Inhalts einer beschrankten Punktmenge) und eine Einfuhrung in die Theorie der Weierstrassschen "analytischen Gebilde." Der editierte Text, dem eine Autobiographie zugrunde liegt, enthalt zahlreiche historische und methodologische Reflexionen. Die Vorlesung, der Kommentar des Herausgebers sowie die vier im Anhang enthaltenen fotomechanischen Nachdrucke von Arbeiten der Jahre 1857 bis 1880 verdeutlichen in besonderem Masse Weierstrass' Beitrag zur strengen Begrundung der Analysis."

Als Schuler von KARL WEIERSTRASS zu Beginn unseres Jahrhunderts an der Ausgabe der Werke ihres Lehrers arbeiteten, ging es ihnen vor allem darum, den nachfolgenden Generationen den Schatz der unveroffentlichten Weierstrassschen Vorlesungen uber elliptische und Abelsche Funktionen sowie uber Variationsrechnung zu uberliefern. Dass die Vorlesungen uber allgemeine Funktionentheorie nicht in den Editionsplan auf genommen wurden, durfte nicht zuletzt auch damit im Zusammenhang gestanden haben, dass deren Wirkung bereits allenthalben erkennbar und unwiderruflich war. Was den Zeitgenossen von WEIERSTRASS nicht erforderlich schien, will uns heute UD verzichtbar scheinen, wenn wir uns als Historiker und als Mathematiker der grossen Gestalt von KARL WEIERSTRASS nahern wollen. Was aber den Zeitgenossen noch recht leicht gefallen ware - eine moglichst exakte historische Dokumentation des Weierstrass schen Beitrages zur strengen Begrundung der Analysis -, erfordert heute einen erhohten Aufwand an geistiger Arbeit, bedingt einen kritischen Vergleich der nur bruchstuckhaft auf uns gekommenen und zumeist nicht autorisierten Nachschriften, ein Einfuhlen in die personlichen und wissenschaftlichen Umstande des Weierstrassschen Wirkens. Die allgemein anerkannte pragende Bedeutung des Weierstrassschen Grundlagen beitrages fur die moderne Mathematik widerspiegelt sich bisher in der internationalen mathematikhistorischen Literatur nur unzureichend. Es ist deshalb sehr zu begrussen, dass es der Herausgeber mit der Edition der von WEIERSTRASS nur einmal gehaltenen Vorlesung "Ausgewahlte Kapitel aus der Funktionenlehre" (1886) unternommen hat, jene Lucke schliessen zu helfen."

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The Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner (1796-1863) came from a poor background with an incomplete education, yet such was his mathematical talent that eventually the Prussian university system adapted itself to him rather than he to it. A geometer in an age dominated by analysts, he pursued his own interests in his own way. The elegant results which bear his name - including Steiner circles, systems and symmetrisation - are known to most mathematicians today. Considered by many to be the greatest geometer since Apollonius of Perga, Steiner did important work on systemising geometry, laying the foundation for much later work on projective geometry. Edited by the eminent mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815-97), this two-volume edition of Steiner's collected works offers scholars access to his influential writings in the original German. Volume 1 was published in 1881.

The German mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815-97) is generally considered to be the father of modern analysis. His clear eye for what was important is demonstrated by the publication, late in life, of his polynomial approximation theorem; suitably generalised as the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, it became a central tool for twentieth-century analysis. Furthermore, the Weierstrass nowhere-differentiable function is the seed from which springs the entire modern theory of mathematical finance. The best students in Europe came to Berlin to attend his lectures, and his rigorous style still dominates the first analysis course at any university. His seven-volume collected works in the original German contain not only published treatises but also records of many of his famous lecture courses. Edited by Johannes Knoblauch (1855-1915), Volume 5 was published in 1915.

The German mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815-97) is generally considered to be the father of modern analysis. His clear eye for what was important is demonstrated by the publication, late in life, of his polynomial approximation theorem; suitably generalised as the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, it became a central tool for twentieth-century analysis. Furthermore, the Weierstrass nowhere-differentiable function is the seed from which springs the entire modern theory of mathematical finance. The best students in Europe came to Berlin to attend his lectures, and his rigorous style still dominates the first analysis course at any university. His seven-volume collected works in the original German contain not only published treatises but also records of many of his famous lecture courses. Edited by Rudolf Rothe (1873-1942), Volume 6 was published in 1915.

The German mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815-97) is generally considered to be the father of modern analysis. His clear eye for what was important is demonstrated by the publication, late in life, of his polynomial approximation theorem; suitably generalised as the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, it became a central tool for twentieth-century analysis. Furthermore, the Weierstrass nowhere-differentiable function is the seed from which springs the entire modern theory of mathematical finance. The best students in Europe came to Berlin to attend his lectures, and his rigorous style still dominates the first analysis course at any university. His seven-volume collected works in the original German contain not only published treatises but also records of many of his famous lecture courses. Edited by Rudolf Rothe (1873-1942), Volume 7 was published in 1927.