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Predicative Arithmetic by Edward Nelson

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Predicative Arithmetic
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN/ASIN: 0691084556
ISBN-13: 9780691084558
Number of pages: 201

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The book is based on lecture notes of a course given at Princeton University in 1980. From the contents: the impredicativity of induction, the axioms of arithmetic, order, induction by relativization, the bounded least number principle, Euclidean algorithm, encoding, sets and functions, and more.

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