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Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind ISBN: 0486210103 Dover Publications Price: $8.95 click here to see this book Two most important essays by the famous German mathematician: one provides an arithmetic, rigorous foundation for the irrational numbers, thereby a rigorous meaning of continuity in analysis. The other is an attempt to give logical basis for transfinite numbers and properties of the natural numbers. Table of Contents for Essays on the Theory of Numbers I. Continuity and Irrational Numbers     Preface   1. Properties of Rational Numbers   2. Comparison of the Rational Numbers with the Points of a Straight Line   3. Continuity of the Straight Line   4. Creation of Irrational Numbers   5. Continuity of the Domain of Real Numbers   6. Operations with Real Numbers   7. Infinitesimal Analysis II. The Nature and Meaning of Numbers     Prefaces   1. Systems of Elements   2. Transformation of a System   3. Similarity of a Transformation. Similar Systems   4. Transformation of a System in Itself   5. The Finite and Infinite   6. Simply Infinite Systems. Series of Natural Numbers   7. Greater and Less Numbers   8. Finite and Infinite Parts of the Number-Series   9. Definition of a Transformation of the Number-Series by Induction   10. The Class of Simply Infinite Systems   11. Addition of Numbers   12. Multiplication of Numbers   13. Involution of Numbers   14. Number of the Elements of a Finite System

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