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- From: bruck@mathj.usc.edu (Ronald Bruck)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Integers
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:15:05 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1993Jan22.094318.10326@aristo.tau.ac.il> jhusdhui@math.tau.ac.il (Gurel-gurevitch Ori) writes:
- >
- > This is not true.
- > the correct Peano's Postulate are:
- > 1)there exist an integer called 0(sometimes 1).
- > 2)every integer n has a successor S(n).
- > 3)for every intgers n and m S(n+m)=S(n)+m
- > 4)if A is a setof integers 0 belongs to A and for every n which
- > belongs
- > to A S(n) belongs to A too then A is N(the set of all integers).
- >
- (Stuff deleted)
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- This is _still_ not Peano's axioms; indeed, axiom 3 doesn't make any
- sense, since + is undefined in your axiom system. You also need: 0
- is not the successor of anything; and you need S(n) = S(m) => n = m.
- Addition and multiplication are then _defined_ in terms of the
- induction axiom.
-
- --Ron Bruck
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