Richard Dedekind Quotes

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

  Richard Dedekind

  Math, Numbers, Mind

  "Essays on the Theory of Numbers".

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

  Richard Dedekind

  Proof, Ought

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• "I see it, but I don't believe it."

  Richard Dedekind

  Believe, Ontology, Statistics

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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

  Talent, Outstanding, Accomplished

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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

  School, Foundation, Elements

  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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