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Weierstrass Function

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21 points by satokausi 2 years ago · 2 comments

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hsjqllzlfkf 2 years ago

> Henri Poincaré famously described them as "monsters" and called Weierstrass' work "an outrage against common sense", while Charles Hermite wrote that they were a "lamentable scourge"

For anyone here not aware, Poincaré and Hermite are some of the biggest names in maths ever.

If I was Weierstrass I would've taken it as a compliment that such big names were shocked. Note they're not saying the function doesn't exist or it fails to make the point.

lvncelot 2 years ago

Also known as an example for "if it pricks you when you touch it, it's not differentiable"

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