Brunswick's second mathematical star: Richard Dedekind (1831--1916) (Q444054)

This is a short biography of Richard Dedekind, an outstanding mathematician, born in Brunswick (Braunschweig). Communicating with Georg Cantor, he gave basic principles of set theory. He also exchanged and discussed mathematical questions with Bernhard Riemann and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. The first famous mathematician, who was born in Brunswick, was Carl Friedrich Gauß, but a generation earlier (1777). Both studied and taught for a longer period at the university in Göttingen. Richard Dedekind returned to Brunswick in 1861. He became Professor at the ``Collegium Carolinum'' and later president of the newly founded ducal technical university ``Carolo Wilhelmina''. 11 pictures illustrate this biography.