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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math
Subject: Re: Peano vs Dedekind
Summary: Down with Peano!
Message-ID: <815@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Jan 89 16:14:46 GMT
References: <2035@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, ULondon E1-4NS
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In article <2035@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
>In article <1088@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes
>>The Peano postulates (really due to Dedekind) contain the essence of the
>>structure of the integers.     ... [ much more deleted ]
>
>Really?
Yes.  Peano deserves zilch in the way of credit.  Nothing.  He'd 
read Was SInd und Was Zollen die Zahlen; the only difference is that
he uses a weaker logic (first order, Dedekind uses 2nd). 
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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
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