The definability of the set of natural numbers in the 1925 Principia Mathematica

DOI10.1007/BF00265255MaRDI QIDQ5961452zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregory Landini

Publication date 20 February 1997

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00265255

zbMATH Keywords

GödelMyhillprincipia mathematicaRussell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60)

Review text

In the 1925 edition of Principia Mathematica, Russell presented a `proof' that mathematical induction could be rectified for finite cardinals without the axiom of reducibility. Later, Gödel found a flaw in Russell's argument, and Myhill arrived at a negative result. The author shows that, while Gödel and Myhill were correct, Russell's result was not wrong as his 1925 Principia uses a different grammar from the original edition. The author presents a new proof to replace Russell's flawed one.

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