Where did Karl Weierstrass become a professor of mathematics?
Munich
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Berlin
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Karl Weierstrass became a professor of mathematics at Berlin in 1856, where he taught until his death in 1897. He was a highly influential mathematician, and his work in analysis, algebra, and number theory laid the foundation for much of modern mathematics. Weierstrass was also a teacher of many notable mathematicians, including David Hilbert, Felix Klein, and Hermann Minkowski.
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