On the (in)dependence of the Dedekind-Peano axioms for natural numbers

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Publication date 2017
Journal Proceeding Series of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Event XXXVI Congresso Nacional de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional
Article number 010239
Volume | Issue number 5 | 1
Number of pages 7
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract We present a direct proof that the Dedekind-Peano axioms for the sequence of natural numbers are not completely independent, as well as a new completely independent set of axioms based on the same set of primitives as the one originally proposed by R. Dedekind.
Document type Article
Note CNMAC (2016)
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.5540/03.2017.005.01.0239
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