Was Sind Und Was Sollen Die Zahlen?: Dedekind By November of 1858 dedekind had resolved the issue by showing how to obtain the andarithmetical operations) from the rational numbers by means of cuts in the http://www.thoralf.uwaterloo.ca/htdocs/scav/dedek/dedek.html
Extractions: Previous: Spectra Next: Cantor Up: Supplementary Text Topics Let us recall that by 1850 the subject of analysis had been given a solid footing in the real numbers infinitesimals had given way to small positive real numbers, the 's and In particular he was not satisfied with his geometrical explanation of why it was that a monotone increasing variable, which is bounded above, approaches a limit. By November of 1858 Dedekind had resolved the issue by showing how to obtain the real numbers (along with their ordering and arithmetical operations) from the rational numbers by means of cuts in the rationals for then he could prove the above mentioned least upper bound property from simple facts about the rational numbers. Furthermore, he proved that applying cuts to the reals gave no further extension. These results were first published in 1872, in Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen. In the introduction to this paper he points out that the real number system can be developed from the natural numbers: I see the whole of arithmetic as a necessary, or at least a natural, consequence of the simplest arithmetical act, of counting, and counting is nothing other that the successive creation of the infinite sequence of positive whole numbers in which each individual is defined in terms of the preceding one.
Intuition And Rigor rigorous introduction into the theory of real numbers. The claimed theoremhas been indeed proven on the foundation of dedekind's cuts. http://www.cut-the-knot.com/fta/bolzano.shtml
Extractions: Recommend this site One of the torch bearers of the formalization attempts in the 19th century was the Czech analyst Bernhard Bolzano (1781-1848.) In his critique of the attempts to prove the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, he wrote The most common kind of proof depends on a truth borrowed from geometry, namely, that every continuous line of simple curvature of which the ordinates are first positive and then negative (or conversely) must necessarily intersect the x-axis somewhere at a point that lies in between those ordinates. There is certainly no question concerning the correctness, nor indeed the obviousness, of this geometrical proposition. But it is clear that it is an intolerable offense against correct method to derive truths of pure (or general) mathematics (i.e., arithmetic, algebra, analysis) from considerations which belong to a merely applied (or special) part, namely, geometry ... By which he of course meant that reliance on the geometrical intuition is an unacceptable tool in deriving analytic truths. He clearly accepts the statement as true but objects to the fact of its being used offhandedly, as a self-evident truth. In the article, Bolzano proceeds to justify the statement that is variably now known as Bolzano's or the Intermediate Value Theorem. His proof depends on the definition of continuity by Cauchy from which he derives the Sign Preserving Property of Continuous Functions . Assuming that at the left end of an interval the function is negative, he observes that it stays negative on a certain bounded set but not for the points near the second end of the interval. He continues
Cauchy Sequence -- From MathWorld converge in the reals. Real numbers can be defined using either dedekindcuts or Cauchy sequences. dedekind Cut. Author Eric W. Weisstein http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CauchySequence.html
Maths@work - Famous Mathematicians Rigorously defined irrational numbers as classes of fractions using 'Dedekindcuts.'; Game a purely arithmetic definition of the essence of continuity. http://www.mathsatwork.com/famous_mathematicians/dedekind.html
Extractions: Julius Dedekind 1831-1916 . Born in Brunswick, Germany on October 6th, son of a jurist, profession and corporation lawyer. . Studied at Gymnasium Martino - Catharineum in Brunswick. Main interests were physics and chemistry. . Studied at Collegium Carolinum. Study included analytic geometry, algebraic analysis, calculus and higher mechanics. . Private tuition in mathematics by Hans Zincke. . Became close friends with George Riemann Gauss . Became friends with Peter Dirichlet. . Became Director of Polytechnic. . Elected correspondent member of Berlin Academy. . Promoted to Professor Emeritus. . Elected correspondent member of Paris Academy. . Received many scientific honours on 50th anniversary of doctorate. . Elected foreign member of Paris Academy.
Combinatorial Games (II) -Different Moves For Left And Right There are many approaches to this, including Richard dedekind's idea of dedekindCuts which, starting with the rational numbers, constructs the real numbers. http://www.ams.org/new-in-math/cover/partizan5.html
The D List contributions to mathematics. His treatment of irrational numbers, Dedekindcuts, put analysis on a firm logical foundation. His work on http://www.siue.edu/~dcollin/Dlist.html
Extractions: To view the photos of your favorite mathematician, just click on the photo. This will load up the image for you to view. To Save, right click on the photo, to return, you must click the "back" feature on your browser. Download all the photo's you wish, but please give proper credit to the publisher. was born in Independance, Iowa, on January 22, 1874. Dickson was the valedictorian of the 1893 class at the University of Texas. In 1894, he went to the University of Chicago and studied under E.H. Moore. Two years later he received a Ph.D, the first to be awarded in mathematics at Chicago. After spending a few years at the University of California and the University of Texas, he was appointed to the faculty at Chicago and remained there until his retirement in 1939.
Www.bath.ac.uk/~masgcs/book1/amplifications/ch8q8_2.txt {\it Well, almost. This is where we should start worrying about Dedekindcuts and Cauchy sequences. In fact we have disguised earlier http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masgcs/book1/amplifications/ch8q8_2.txt
Seminaire De Logique, Lambda-calcul Et Programmation Translate this page résumé. 18/12/98 Klaus Grue (Université de Copenhague) Dedekindcuts as a means for constructing kappa-Scott domains. abstract. http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/semlam/98_99/
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The Arche Web Site Arché Research Project at the University of St Andrews. Description of the project, sponsors, researche Category Society Philosophy Philosophy of Mathematics The simplest proposalto which early attention will be given-is to mimic Dedekindcuts by developing an abstractionist theory of the rationals and defining http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/philosophy/arche/math.shtml
