Top 5 Quotes by Richard Dedekind

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

Richard Dedekind

Math, Numbers, Mind

"Essays on the Theory of Numbers".

"I see it, but I don't believe it."

Richard Dedekind

Believe, Ontology, Statistics

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Richard Dedekind

Proof, Ought

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

Talent, Outstanding, Accomplished

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

School, Foundation, Elements

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