English Explanatory Dictionary

Peano arithmetic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Peano arithmetic Peano arithmetics

Etymology

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

Related words

Presburger arithmetic
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