The theory of natural numbers defined by the five Peano's axioms. Paris and Harrington (1977) gave the first "natural" example of a statement which is true for the integers but unprovable in Peano arithmetic (Spencer 1983).

See also

First-Order Logic, Kreisel Conjecture, Natural Independence Phenomenon, Number Theory, Peano's Axioms, Propositional Calculus

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References

Kirby, L. and Paris, J. "Accessible Independence Results for Peano Arithmetic." Bull. London Math. Soc. 14, 285-293, 1982.Paris, J. and Harrington, L. "A Mathematical Incompleteness in Peano Arithmetic." In Handbook of Mathematical Logic (Ed. J. Barwise). Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 1133-1142, 1977.Spencer, J. "Large Numbers and Unprovable Theorems." Amer. Math. Monthly 90, 669-675, 1983.

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