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  1. 1831-1916. German mathematician, who made 
  2. contributions to number theory. In 1872 he 
  3. introduced the Dedekind cut (which divides a 
  4. line of infinite length representing all real
  5. numbers) to categorize irrational numbers as
  6. fractions and thus increase their usefulness.
  7.