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Dedekind = Kind Deed

June 20, 2018Original blog post

Dedekind's kind deed: the gift of a set-theoretic definition of the integers. (An anagram.)

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[Title] "DEDEKIND = KIND DEED"

"Look! I got you a gift!" "Oh… it's a set theoretic definition of the integers… how, uh, useful…" "You're welcome!"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-20-dedekind-kind-deed/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Sets & Infinity › Set TheoryLogic & Proof › Foundations of Math
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