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1831–1916 Germany

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

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If a, c are two different numbers, there are infinitely many different numbers lying between a, c.

Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen (1872)

What advantage will be gained by even a purely abstract definition of real numbers of a higher type, I am as yet unable to see, conceiving as I do of the domain of real numbers as complete in itself.

Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen (1872)

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