Richard Dedekind

Julius Wilhelmina Richard Dedekind (6 Oct 1831 – 12 Feb 1916)

– Last student of Gauss at Göttingen
– Student and closed friend of Dirichlet who influenced his Mathematical education
– Introduced the word Field (Körper)
– Gave the first university course on Galois Theory
– Developed Real Number ‘Dedekind Cut‘ in 1872
– Accomplished musician
– Never married, lived with his unmarried sister until death
– “Whatever provable should be proved.”
– By 1858: still yet established ?
$latex sqrt{2}.sqrt{3} = sqrt{2.3} $
– Gave strong support to Cantor on Infinite Set.