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Dedekind cut

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A Dedekind cut in an ordered field is a partition of it, (A, B), such that A is closed downwards, B is closed upwards and A has no maximum.

The Dedekind cut is named after Julius Dedekind, who invented this construction in order to represent the real numbers as Dedekind cuts of the rational numbers.

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