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1831 – 1916Richard Dedekind (1831-1916)Born 6 October 1831Dedekind was a German mathematician who gave a rigorous construction of the real numbers, now known as Dedekind cuts, and made foundational contributions to abstract algebra and number theory. He spent most of his career teaching in his native Braunschweig.