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Who formalized the definition of continuity of a function?

  • Albert Einstein

  • Isaac Newton

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • Karl Weierstrass

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Karl Weierstrass formalized the definition of continuity of a function in the 19th century. He defined a function to be continuous at a point if it can be continuously deformed to a constant function at that point.
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