Mathematician:Bernhard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano

Bohemian mathematician, logician, theologian and philosopher.


 * Proved the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem, independently of (and earlier than) Karl Weierstrass.
 * Gave the first analytical proof of the Intermediate Value Theorem (which is also known as Bolzano's Theorem).

Nationality
Bohemian

History

 * Born: 5 Oct 1781, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Habsburg domain (now Czech Republic)
 * Died: 18 Dec 1848, Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Intermediate Value Theorem
 * Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1810: Beyträge zu einer begründeteren Darstellung der Mathematik. Erste Lieferung
 * 1816: Der binomische Lehrsatz ...
 * 1816: On the Condition of the Two Nationalities in Bohemia
 * 1817: Rein analytischer Beweis ... (Pure Analytical Proof)
 * 1837: Wissenschaftslehre (Theory of Science)
 * 1851: Paradoxien des Unendlichen (The Paradoxes of the Infinite) (contains the first instance in mathematical literature of the term Set)