Home › Words › W › weierstrassianweierstrassianweierstrassian means of or relating to Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), German mathematician.EtymologyFrom Weierstrass + -ian.adjOf or relating to Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), German mathematician.nounA follower of the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897).e.g.“For the analysts, Weierstrass was the leader; his followers were proud to be known as Weierstrassians, and they constitute a school in the strict sense.” — 2000, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 486:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.weylian 63% match — Of or relating to Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher. vs weierstrassian →hilbertian 58% match — Relating to David Hilbert (1862–1943), German mathematician. vs weierstrassian →dirichletian 57% match — Of or relating to Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), German mathematician who made deep contributions to number theory. vs weierstrassian →cantorian 56% match — Of or pertaining to Georg Cantor (1845-1918), German mathematician and creator of set theory. vs weierstrassian →wehlerian 56% match — Of or relating to Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), German historian. vs weierstrassian →weberian 55% match — Of or relating to Max Weber (1864–1920), influential German sociologist and political economist. vs weierstrassian →whistonian 54% match — Of or relating to William Whiston (1667–1752), English theologian, historian, and mathematician. vs weierstrassian →weismannian 54% match — Of or relating to August Weismann (1834–1914), German evolutionary biologist. vs weierstrassian →