Dedekind

American

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

noun

Julius Wilhelm Richard 1831–1916, German mathematician.

Dedekind British

/ ˈdedəˌkɪnt /

noun

( 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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In contrast, there is no simple formula to describe the Dedekind numbers.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023

“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

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

“He really got bitten by this Dedekind number problem, and he couldn’t get rid of it,” De Causmaecker says.

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.

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