Dedekind

American  

[dey-di-kind, dey-duh-kint] / ˈdeɪ dɪ kɪnd, ˈdeɪ də kɪnt /

noun

1. Julius Wilhelm Richard 1831–1916, German mathematician.

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Dedekind British  

/ ˈdedəˌkɪnt /

noun

1. ( Julius Wilhelm ) Richard (ˈjuːlɪʊs ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈrixɑːt). 1831–1916, German mathematician, who devised a way (the Dedekind cut ) of according irrational and rational numbers the same status

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Example Sentences

“Historically, a new Dedekind number has been discovered every 20 to 30 years,” says Bartłomiej Pawelski, a computer scientist at University of Gdansk in Poland.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

Mathematicians have been waiting 32 years to find out the value of the ninth Dedekind number, part of a series of numbers that was first discovered in the 19th century.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

Its corners are all colored either white or red, and the nth Dedekind number counts the number of colorings where no white point is topped by a red point.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

That special requirement makes the Dedekind numbers difficult to compute.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

The work of men like Cantor, Dedekind, Frege, Whitehead, Russell, is providing us with an almost unexceptional theory of the first principles required for pure mathematics.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various