Was Sind Und Was Sollen Die Zahlen?
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The nineteenth century saw the paradoxes and obscurities of eighteenth-century calculus gradually replaced by the exact theorems and statements of rigorous analysis. It became clear that all analysis could be deduced from the properties of the real numbers. But what are the real numbers and why do they have the properties we claim they do? In this charming and influential book, Richard Dedekind (1831-1916), Professor at the Technische Hochschule in Braunschweig, showed how to resolve this problem starting from elementary ideas. His method of constructing the reals from the rationals (the Dedekind cut) remains central to this day and was generalised by Conway in his construction of the 'surreal numbers'. This reissue of Dedekind's 1888 classic is of the 'second, unaltered' 1893 edition.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108050387
ISBN13:9781108050388
Release Date:August 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:84 Pages
Weight:0.26 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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