Etymology

Presburger arithmetic

Today it means: A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, and addition, including a first-order schema of induction, without multiplication. Full definition →

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Introduced in 1929 by Mojżesz Presburger.

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