Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen

by Richard Dedekind

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg, 1872. First edition, very rare in commerce, of Dedekind’s great work on the foundations of mathematics. “This short work Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen marks a significant epoch in the movement known as the arithmetization of analysis, that is, the replacement of intuitive geometric notions by concepts described in precise words” Landmark

• Binding: Hardcover

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