The modernity of Dedekind's anticipations contained in \textit{What are numbers and what are they good for?} (Q1637277)

In 1973, van der Waerden cited Emmy Noether having said: `Es steht alles schon bei Dedekind' (everything can already be found in Dedekind's writings) and it is this citation which is printed at the very start of the present paper. The authors follow Dedekind's principle of definition by mathematical recursion and its influence on modern mathematics. As it turns out Noether was right. Dedekind's more or less implicitely used concepts of an inductive cone and of inductive limits have reached far into the modern mathematics of the 20th and 21st century and the authors have described these influences thoroughly, leading to universal algebra, category theory, and recursive mappings.