FOM: Zermelo's successor function

Peter Apostoli apostoli at sympatico.ca
Tue May 7 14:39:49 EDT 2002


Dear FOM'ers,

I underdstand that E. Zermelo first suggested representing Peano's successor
function by the set theoretic operation of forming singletons (?). Can
anyone on the list verify this; if so, is a citation available?

Many Thanks,

Peter A.
Toronto





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