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Richard Dedekind
{6/10/1831 - 12/2/1916}
Dedekind took Kummer's concept of an ideal number and created the now more widely used notion of an ideal.
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
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