From: Stephen Bloch (sbloch at adelphi.edu) Date: Thu Mar 12 10:05:10 EDT 2009 |
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On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Bill wrote: > Natural numbers starting at 1: > ... > o Giuseppe Peano, "The principles of arithmetic, presented by a new > method", Really? I don't know how many different presentations of Peano arithmetic I've read, and every one of them started at zero. Does he say his system represents "the natural numbers, together with zero" or something like that? Stephen Bloch sbloch at adelphi.edu
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