  It is usually considered that the structuralist tendency in mathematics began
in the twentieth century, at some point after the works on set theory and
obtained its spreading through the works made by the Bourbaki group. In the
present paper we argument the presence of this stylistic inclination in Richard
Dedekind (1831-1916) when he made this dissertation for the habilitation as
privatdozent at the University of Goettingen in 1854. Our main objective is to
show how evolved the structuralist style in Dedekind's works, and to argument
why we consider him significant to the architecture of arithmetical continuum.
