Dedekind property

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• Dedekind cut — Dedekind used his cut to construct the irrational, real numbers. In mathematics, a Dedekind cut, named after Richard Dedekind, is a partition of the rationals into two non empty parts A and B, such that all elements of A are less than all… …   Wikipedia

• Dedekind domain — In abstract algebra, a Dedekind domain or Dedekind ring, named after Richard Dedekind, is an integral domain in which every nonzero proper ideal factors into a product of prime ideals. It can be shown that such a factorization is then necessarily …   Wikipedia

• Dedekind-infinite set — In mathematics, a set A is Dedekind infinite if some proper subset B of A is equinumerous to A. Explicitly, this means that there is a bijective function from A onto some proper subset B of A. A set is Dedekind finite if it is not Dedekind… …   Wikipedia

• Dedekind–MacNeille completion — The Hasse diagram of a partially ordered set (left) and its Dedekind–MacNeille completion (right). In order theoretic mathematics, the Dedekind–MacNeille completion of a partially ordered set (also called the completion by cuts or normal… …   Wikipedia

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• Least-upper-bound property — In mathematics, the least upper bound property is a fundamental property of the real numbers and certain other ordered sets. The property states that any non empty set of real numbers that has an upper bound necessarily has a least upper bound… …   Wikipedia

• Logic and the philosophy of mathematics in the nineteenth century — John Stillwell INTRODUCTION In its history of over two thousand years, mathematics has seldom been disturbed by philosophical disputes. Ever since Plato, who is said to have put the slogan ‘Let no one who is not a geometer enter here’ over the… …   History of philosophy

• Logicism — is one of the schools of thought in the philosophy of mathematics, putting forth the theory that mathematics is an extension of logic and therefore some or all mathematics is reducible to logic.[1] Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead… …   Wikipedia

• 0.999... — In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999... (which may also be written as 0.9, , 0.(9), or as 0. followed by any number of 9s in the repeating decimal) denotes a real number that can be shown to be the number one. In other words, the symbols 0 …   Wikipedia

• logic, history of — Introduction       the history of the discipline from its origins among the ancient Greeks to the present time. Origins of logic in the West Precursors of ancient logic       There was a medieval tradition according to which the Greek philosopher …   Universalium

• Algebraic number field — In mathematics, an algebraic number field (or simply number field) F is a finite (and hence algebraic) field extension of the field of rational numbers Q. Thus F is a field that contains Q and has finite dimension when considered as a vector… …   Wikipedia