Bolzano-Weierstrass property

English Etymology Named 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 1 en 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. References Mendelson, Bert Introduction to Topology Third New York Dover Publications, Inc. 1990 175 §5.5 0-486-66352-3 932232056 1975 en eponyms