Richard Dedekind Quote

Numbers are free creations of the human mind; they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the difference of things.


Translated by Wooster Woodruff Beman, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, The Nature and Meaning of Numbers, Preface to the First Edition (p. 31), The Open Court Publishing Company. 1901


Numbers are free creations of the human mind; they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the difference of things.

Numbers are free creations of the human mind; they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the difference of things.

Numbers are free creations of the human mind; they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the difference of things.

Numbers are free creations of the human mind; they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the difference of things.