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In this chapter, we look at how Dedekind refined his own theory of ideals in the later 1870s, and then at the contrast with Kronecker
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Gray, J. (2018). Dedekind’s Later Theory of Ideals. In: A History of Abstract Algebra. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94773-0_18
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