Prelude: Gösta Mittag-Leffler and his quest for the Weierstraß legacy

Mikael Rågstedt
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Chapter 0 in Karl Weierstraß (1815–1897), 2016, pp 1-9 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The article gives an account of how it happened that a substantial part of the Nachlass of Karl Weierstraß ended up in a villa outside Stockholm in Sweden. The private residence, which included many library rooms and large archive facilities, was built by the Swedish mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler. His intention became clear in 1916 when he founded the mathematical research institute which now bears his name. Ever since Mittag-Leffler first attended Weierstraß’s lectures in Berlin he had felt a great admiration for the master and his mathematical ideas. They formed a lifelong friendship, and after Weierstraß’s death it became a growing concern for Mittag-Leffler to collect and preserve as much as possible of the scientific material and biographical information related to Weierstraß. Through letters and documents at Institut Mittag-Leffler we may follow his modus operandi for achieving these ends.

Keywords: Private Tutorial; Georg Cantor; Lifelong Friendship; Mathematical Research Institute; Legacy Idea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-10619-5_1

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