Bolzano-Weierstrass property
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian descent, and Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis".
Proper noun
editthe Bolzano-Weierstrass property
- (topology) The property held by some topological spaces that if a subset of such a space has an infinite quantity of points then the subset has at least one accumulation point.