15-317 Constructive Logic
Lecture 6: Natural Numbers

In this lecture we introduce the data type of natural numbers as a prototype for other kinds of data structures. The introduction form let us construct natural numbers from zero and a successor function, the elimination forms model both proof by induction and function definition by primitive recursion. The resulting system is called intuitionistic arithmetic or Heyting arithmetic.


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