Bernard Bolzano
Bernard Bolzano
Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 – December 18, 1848) was a Czech mathematician, theologian, and philosopher. He was born in Prague.
He is known for Bolzano's theorem, and also jointly with Karl Weierstrass developed the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem.
In his philosophy, Bolzano attacked the idealism of Hegel and Kant by asserting that numbers, ideas, and truths exist apart from the people who think of them.
External links
- http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bolzano.html
- http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/bolzano.html
- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02643c.htm
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