Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Dedekind

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German mathematician Richard Dedekind.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

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.

German - Mathematician | October 6, 1831 - February 12, 1916

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That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Richard Dedekind

For what I have accomplished and what I have become, I have to to thank my industry much more, my indefatigable working, rather than any outstanding talent.

Richard Dedekind

As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential calculus and felt more keenly than ever before the lack of a really scientific foundation for arithmetic.

Richard Dedekind

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

Richard Dedekind

"I see it, but I don't believe it."

Richard Dedekind