Goodstein’s Theorem Revisited

Michael Rathjen ()
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Michael Rathjen: University of Leeds, School of Mathematics

A chapter in Gentzen's Centenary, 2015, pp 229-242 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Prompted by Gentzen’s 1936 consistency proof, Goodstein found a close fit between descending sequences of ordinals $$

Keywords: Recursive Function; Elementary Proof; Sequent Calculus; Peano Arithmetic; Independence Result (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10103-3_9

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