dcernst / IBL-IntroToProof

A textbook for the transition to proof course for mathematics majors utilizing IBL.
http://dcernst.github.io/IBL-IntroToProof
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Define natural numbers formally inside chapter on real numbers #138

Closed dcernst closed 3 years ago

dcernst commented 3 years ago

$\mathbb{N}$ denotes the set of natural numbers, so that $\mathbb{N}= {1,2,3,\ldots}$ is the smallest subset of $\mathbb{R}$ satisfying: (a) $1\in\mathbb{N}$ ,and (b) for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$, we have $n+1\in\mathbb{N}$.

dcernst commented 3 years ago

Or define inside chapter on induction if I swap chapters?

dcernst commented 3 years ago

Done.