Born
1831
Died
1916
Nationality
German
Events involving Richard Dedekind (3)
1862
ID: 938
Richard Dedekind develops rigorous construction of real numbers - foundation for continuous quantities
ID: 938
1872
ID: 986
Richard Dedekind develops theory of algebraic integers - systematic study of number fields
ID: 986
1876
ID: 1002
Dedekind and Heinrich Weber develop theory of algebraic function fields - foundation for cryptography
ID: 1002