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This is a nice start to an article. Perhaps this will be of assistance to someone doing further development of it. The upshot is that Stillwell's translation is apparently on the 1st or 2nd editions, and there's a 3rd edition of 1879 that contains new material. I've cc'd the following over from a debate on the talk page re the generalized notion of " function" (I've cc'd all of this for background):
RE: Dedekind's notion of "function"
(Notice the * footnote in the following, and the word "law"). Dedekind has become a favorite of mine, in particular his 1887 Nature and Meaning of Numbers, Dover Publications, Inc, NY, ISBN 0-486-21010-3, also this is in the public domain at http://books.google.com/books?id=PywPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dedekind+The+Nature+and+Meaning+of+Numbers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=owdFT_HjHaTx0gG-0Nn2Aw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Dedekind%20The%20Nature%20and%20Meaning%20of%20Numbers&f=false .(I mark up my books so I paid $8.95 for the facsimile). Here is his definition in II. TRANSFORMATION OF A SYSTEM:
This warrants more research. Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 15:40, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
--- Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 01:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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This is a nice start to an article. Perhaps this will be of assistance to someone doing further development of it. The upshot is that Stillwell's translation is apparently on the 1st or 2nd editions, and there's a 3rd edition of 1879 that contains new material. I've cc'd the following over from a debate on the talk page re the generalized notion of " function" (I've cc'd all of this for background):
RE: Dedekind's notion of "function"
(Notice the * footnote in the following, and the word "law"). Dedekind has become a favorite of mine, in particular his 1887 Nature and Meaning of Numbers, Dover Publications, Inc, NY, ISBN 0-486-21010-3, also this is in the public domain at http://books.google.com/books?id=PywPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dedekind+The+Nature+and+Meaning+of+Numbers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=owdFT_HjHaTx0gG-0Nn2Aw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Dedekind%20The%20Nature%20and%20Meaning%20of%20Numbers&f=false .(I mark up my books so I paid $8.95 for the facsimile). Here is his definition in II. TRANSFORMATION OF A SYSTEM:
This warrants more research. Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 15:40, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
--- Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 01:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)