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Are there non-commutative models of arithmetic which have a prime number structure?
Peano Arithmetic (PA) models have a prime number structure and commutativity of addition and multiplication. Presburger arithmetic (PrA) models of arithmetic have addition without multiplication and ...
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How would one even begin to try to prove that a simple number-theoretic statement is undecidable?
This question is closely related to this one: Knuth's intuition that Goldbach might be unprovable. It stems from my ignorance about non-standard models of arithmetic. In a comment on the other ...
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