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Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind

The life of Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind - the "Dedekind Cut"


Dedekind Cuts

A method of constructing the real numbers from the rational numbers.

\[ x = \{ q \in \mathbb{Q} \mid q < r \} \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dedekind/