Weierstrass's construction of the irrational numbers

DOI10.1007/S00591-010-0082-6MaRDI QIDQ538498zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Christopher Tweddle

Publication date 25 May 2011

Published in Mathematische Semesterberichte (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00591-010-0082-6

zbMATH Keywords

irrational numbersreal numbersWeierstrass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Review text

The paper is devoted to the presentation of Weierstrass's construction of real numbers. Weierstrass included his construction into a series of lectures on analytic functions. He never published it in its entirety. Some of his students published lecture notes containing the construction -- the notes differ slightly in details, none of these works present a thorough exposition accessible to the modern reader. The historical background of Weierstrass's construction is also given in the paper under review.

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• Irrational numbers in English language textbooks, 1890--1915: Constructions and postulates for the completeness of the real numbers
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