Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind, Mathematics

Essays on the Theory of Numbers

Richard Dedekind, Mathematics with Wooster Woodruff Beman (Translator)

128 pages first pub 1901 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced

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Two most important essays by the famous German mathematician: one provides an arithmetic, rigorous foundation for the irrational numbers, thereby a rigorous meaning of continuity in analysis. The other is an attempt to give logical basis for trans...

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