Bunyakovskii and weirstrass..... (elementary algebra)

Question

Bunyakovskii and weirstrass were contemporaries.... State true or false and justify your answer

Answer 1

Yes, they were contempararies, and Bunyakovsky was about 11 years older than Weierstrass, and lived in the 19th century.

 

Comments

But how were they contemporaries

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Bunyakovsky was born in 1804 and died in 1889, while Weierstrass' dates were 1815-1897. So they were contemporaries because they were living in very similar time periods. That's all that contemporary means --- same time.

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