Re: [HM] Richard Dedekind

David Wilkins (dwilkins@maths.tcd.ie)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 16:01:06 +0100

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>Friends:
>
>What is the best study of the work of Richard Dedekind. I am especially
>interested in his two articles: Was sind. . .? and Stetigkeit ..., but is
>there a biography?
>
>What is the best treatment of postulates for the "natural numbers"?
>
>What is the best treatment of his definition of irrational numbers--I know
>the Bertrand Russell.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Sam Kutler
>
>

A paper on Dedekind that I came across recently is

David Charles McCarty,
`The Mysteries of Richard Dedekind'
in
Jaakko Hintikka (ed.): From Dedekind to Go"del,
Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics, 53 - 96
1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
ISBN 0-7923-3484-1

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