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Richard Dedekind (1831–1916) was a central figure in the theoretical transformation of 19th-century mathematics, playing a foundational role in the arithmetization of analysis and the construction of the structural foundations of modern algebra. By advocating a structural and logical methodology that viewed mathematics as a logical system—through the axiomatic definition of natural numbers (Dedekind-Peano axioms) and the systematic use of set-theoretic methods—he laid the theoretical framework f