Geek Fact for October 6th

By Judy Novotny / 10/06/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1831, mathematician Richard Dedekind was born.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Richard Dedekind

“…was one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth-century, as well as one of the most important contributors to number theory and algebra of all time.”

Learn more at http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/dedekind-foundations/.

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Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.