Richard Dedekind quotes

Richard Dedekind quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.”
-- Richard Dedekind

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“That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.”
-- Richard Dedekind

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“"I see it, but I don't believe it."”
-- Richard Dedekind

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“We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.”
-- Richard Dedekind

Source : "Essays on the Theory of Numbers".

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“For what I have accomplished and what I have become, I have to to thank my industry much more, my indefatigable working, rather than any outstanding talent.”
-- Richard Dedekind

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“As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential calculus and felt more keenly than ever before the lack of a really scientific foundation for arithmetic.”
-- Richard Dedekind

Source : Richard Dedekind (1901). “Essays on the Theory of Numbers: I. Continuity and Irrational Numbers, II. The Nature and Meaning of Numbers”

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