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When Richard Dedekind ‘invented’ real numbers at ETH Zurich
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What is the nature and meaning of numbers? Mathematician Richard Dedekind asked these questions 159 years ago at ETH Zurich, and became the first person to define real numbers. To mark this occasion, the Israeli science historian Leo Corry will give a public lecture on the unity of Dedekind’s number theoretic concepts.
by D-MATH / Florian Meyer