Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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? =