Richard Dedekind, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Dedekind

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1831

Place of Birth: Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1916

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), axiomatic foundation for the natural numbers, algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.