FOM: Peano

Alasdair Urquhart urquhart at cs.toronto.edu
Wed May 15 18:33:13 EDT 2002


The epsilon for membership apparently
appears for the first time in Peano's 
"Principles of arithmetic, presented by
a new method" (1889).  This is translated
as the second item in the famous 
Van Heijenoort anthology, and is also
translated in Selected Works, ed.
by Hubert C. Kennedy.





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