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To begin with we follow Hilbert’s program and, in a first step, try to axiomatize — if not the whole of mathematics — but the theory of natural numbers. To obtain a feeling how this might be done we start by some heuristic considerations.
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(1989). Ordinal Analysis of Pure Number Theory. In: Proof Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1407. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46825-7_2
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