Conway takes this next level with On Numbers and Games. Very openly acknowledges the debt to Dedekind. Also Knuth did something similar with his Surreal Numbers

Conway takes this next level with On Numbers and Games. Very openly acknowledges the debt to Dedekind. Also Knuth did something similar with his Surreal Numbers book. I think he even wrote it as a kind of chaste romance novel, but I haven't read it so have no further comment.