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Richard Dedekind
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra, and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His best known contribution is the definition of real numbers through the notion of Dedekind cut. He is also considered a pioneer in the development of modern set theory and of the philosophy of mathematics known as logicism.
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science · German mathematician (1831–1916) · mathematician · philosopher · university teacher · also Richard Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind, Dedekind
Born 6 October 1831 · Died 12 February 1916 · Q76556
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1916· 1 entry
Died 1916-02-12.
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1894· 1 entry
But did occasional teaching and continued to publish
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1888· 1 entry
Published a short monograph titled Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen
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1872· 1 entry
While on holiday in Interlaken, Dedekind met Georg Cantor
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1863· 1 entry
Published Lejeune Dirichlet's lectures on number theory as Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie ("Lectures on Number Theory") about which it has been written that:
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1862· 1 entry
Dedekind returned to his native Braunschweig, where he spent the rest of his life, teaching at the Institute
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1858· 1 entry
Began teaching at the Polytechnic school in Zürich (now ETH Zürich)
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1854· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1852–1854).
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1852· 2 entries
For a thesis titled Über die Theorie der Eulerschen Integrale ("On the Theory of Eulerian integrals")
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Studied at University of Göttingen (1850–1852).
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1850· 1 entry
Studied at Collegium Carolinum (1848–1850).
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1848· 2 entries
Studied at Martino-Katharineum (1838–1848).
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Before transferring to the University of Göttingen in 1850
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1843· 1 entry
“s most important disciple.) In an 1882 article, Dedekind and Heinrich Martin Weber applied ideals to Riemann surfaces, giving an algebraic proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem. In 1888, he published a short monograph titled Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? (”
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1831· 1 entry
Born 1831-10-06.
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