Quote of the day
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
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? =