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Natural numbers are the first topic studied by all students in first years of elementary school. Here, the classic definitions of ordinal and natural numbers are entirely derived from set theory. The well-known five Peano axioms that define natural numbers are now presented as a theorem.
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Mazzola, G., Mannone, M., Pang, Y. (2016). Natural Numbers. In: Cool Math for Hot Music. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_6
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