%0 Journal Article %T Uniform version of Weyl-von Neumann theorem %A Jan Spakula %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s00013-010-0147-8 %X We prove a "quantified" version of the Weyl-von Neumann theorem, more precisely, we estimate the ranks of approximants to compact operators appearing in the Voiculescu's theorem applied to commutative algebras. This allows considerable simplifications in uniform K-homology theory, namely it shows that one can represent all the uniform K-homology classes on a fixed Hilbert space with a fixed *-representation of C_0(X), for a large class of spaces X. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2230v1