Peano arithmetic

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Peano arithmetic

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Named after Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932).

noun Peano arithmetics

  1. countable, uncountable A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, addition and multiplication, including a first-order schema of induction.

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