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Dedekind, Richard

Academic pages in English. Thanks.
Julius Wihelm Richard Dedekind (1831-1916), mathematician whose major contribution was a redefinition of irrational numbers in terms of Dedekind cuts. He introduced the notion of an ideal which is fundamental to ring theory.

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