FOM: Dedekind --- The Ultimate Definition Of Cut? Indeed, a CUT (or dedekind cut) is a partition of the rationals onto two This definition captures the underlying intuition of dedekind s cut even http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-March/001440.html
Extractions: Fri Mar 13 21:01:03 EST 1998 The fact that the complement of the cuts would work just as well as the cuts themselves as representations of the reals should make it clear that it is meaningless to identify the reals with the cuts. This everything is meaningless because the "complements of cuts" is a meaningless notion. Indeed, a CUT (or: Dedekind cut) is a partition of the rationals onto two disjoint sets A and B, such and such ... . Dedekind was very clever. He knew that prominent professors would ask why he had taken A rather than B to represent a real, or vice versa. So he took the pair of A and B, leaving for the nowadays categorists to be kidding over their own interpretations. More information about the FOM mailing list
Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind The core of his method is his concept of the dedekind cut . This cut is definedas a subdivision of the rational numbers into two nonempty sets satisfying http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~orr/webpages/cpt120/mathbios/rdedek.htm
Extractions: RICHARD JULIUS WILHELM DEDEKIND Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician who was born in 1831 in Brunswick. His father was a professor of law. Dedekind studied at Gottingen where he later taught. He also taught at the Zurich polytechnic for a few years. He then became the professor of mathematics in the technical school of Brunswick where he taught for half a century. He was a bachelor and he lived with his unmarried sister, Julie, until her death in 1914. Dedekind made many original and important contributions to the theory of algebraic numbers. He died at the age of 85 in 1916. In 1872, he published a book, Continuity and Irrational Numbers , in which he attempted to remove all ambiguities and doubts as to how irrational numbers fitted into the domain of arithmetic. Some items to be considered in this work are as follows (all numbers are shown in base ten arithmetic): A rational number can be expressed in the form of a fraction a/b where a and b are integers. A number which cannot be expressed as a rational fraction is an irrational number. For example, . The class of real numbers is made up of rational and irrational numbers. A rational number can be expressed in decimal notation and where the decimal does not terminate (end in zeroes), it repeats itself periodically. For example, 10/13 =.769230.769230.769230 and 14/11 = 1.27.27.27. An irrational number when expressed as a decimal does not terminate or exhibit the periods. It is impossible to exactly express numbers such as
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Archimedes Plutonium Has anyone proved that the method of dedekind cut is really just the Axiom And then from dedekind Cut = Cauchy sequence = Axiom of Choice you end with http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/File107.html
Content dedekind cut any real number corresponds to a dedekind cut of the set of rationalnumbers. A dedekind cut in an ordered field is a partition of it, (A, B), http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/books/math/analysis/RealAnalysis.html
Seminaire Du Vendredi The talk shows that the dedekind Cut construction, which allows to construct the The talk focuses on the dedekind cut construction and its properties. http://pauillac.inria.fr/pipermail/gtlogique/1998-December/000079.html
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Mathematical Masterpieces: Teaching With Original Sources 3; JOHN CONWAY A vast generalization of a dedekind cut, combined with ideasfrom game theory, led Conway in the 1970s to create, with a single http://math.nmsu.edu/~history/masterpieces/masterpieces.html
Extractions: R. Calinger (ed.), MAA, Washington, 1996, pp. 257260] Our upper-level university honors course, entitled Great Theorems: The Art of Mathematics To achieve our aims we have selected mathematical masterpieces meeting the following criteria. First, sources must be original in the sense that new mathematics is captured in the words and notation of the inventor. Thus we assemble original works or English translations. When English translations are not available, we and our students read certain works in their original French, German, or Latin. In the case of ancient sources, we must often depend upon restored originals and probe the process of restoration. Texts selected also encompass a breadth of mathematical subjects from antiquity to the twentieth century, and include the work of men and women and of Western and non-Western mathematicians. Finally, our selection provides a broad view of mathematics building upon our students' background, and aims, in some cases, to reveal the development over time of strands of mathematical thought. At present the masterpieces are selected from the following. The Greek method of exhaustion for computing areas and volumes, pioneered by Eudoxus, reached its pinnacle in the work of Archimedes during the third century BC. A beautiful illustration of this method is Archimedes's determination of the area inside a spiral. [
Index Of Basic Concepts Of Mathematics - The Trillia Group dedekind cut, 112; dedekind s theorem, 121; Density of an ordered field, 61, 88;Determinant definition of cross products, 150 definition of hyperplanes, http://www.trillia.com/zakon-basic-index.html
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