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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Richard Dedekind
Born: October 6, 1831
Died: February 12, 1916 (aged 84)
Bio: Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra, algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
Known for:
- Essays on the theory of numbers (1901)
- Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? (1888)
- Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (1863)
- Theory of algebraic integers
- What are numbers and what should they be? =