Abstract

The consistency of the natural number theory was proved, as is well known, by G. Gentzen in 1935 for the first time in such generality that the mathematical induction can be consistently used for any arbitrary predicate of natural numbers, which is well-formed in his system so that every quantifier ranges over all natural numbers.

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