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Textbooks also perpetuate related confusions, suchas suggestionsthat induction and `strong' induction (or else the `well-orderingprinciple') are logically equivalent, and that either one is sufficientto axiomatize the natural numbers.In an exercise in one noteworthy textbook \cite[II.1,  p.~38]{MR0214415}, the reader is invitedto show the logical independence of the threeaxioms introduced by Dedekind, but commonly called by the name ofPeano: ($\alpha$) the initial element is not a successor, ($\beta$) thesuccessor-operation is injective, and ($\gamma$) proof by induction works.  But first, just after the introduction of these as axioms for thenatural numbers, these numbers are used toindex iterates of functions.  This indexing is used later (II.2)to define addition andmultiplication.  But this indexing strictly requires all three of theaxioms, normally in the equivalent form introduced only later still(II.11) and called the Peano--Lawvere Axiom.  (Mention of this is absentfrom later editions, as \cite{MR941522}; it is called the  Dedekind--Peano Axiom in \cite[9.1, p.~156]{MR1965482}.)Landau implicitly (and Henkin explicitly) shows that addition andmultiplication can be defined by induction alone.  But the argument takes some work.(Strictly, the argument requires that these operations are beingdefined on a \emph{set.}  However, with more work, one can avoid thisassumption.)  If one thinksthat the recursive definitions of addition andmultiplication---$n+0=n$, $n+(k+1)=(n+k)+1$, $n\cdot0=0$, $n\cdot(k+1)=n\cdot k+n$---are \emph{obviously} justified by induction alone, then one may think the same for exponentation, with $n^0=1,\ n^{k+1}=n^k\cdot n$.However, while addition and multiplication arewell-defined on $\mathbb Z/(n)$ (which admits induction),exponentiation isnot; rather, we have$(x,y)\mapsto x^y\colon\mathbb Z/(n)\times\mathbb Z/\phi(n)\to\mathbb Z/(n)$.This is one example to suggest that getting things straight may make a pedagogical difference.%\bibliographystyle{amsplain}%\bibliography{../../../TeX/references}\begin{thebibliography}{10}%% INSERT YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRIES HERE; %% SEE (4) BELOW FOR PROPER FORMAT.%% EACH ENTRY MUST BEGIN WITH \bibitem{citation key}%%%% IF THERE ARE NO ENTRIES  %% DELETE THE LINE ABOVE (\begin{thebibliography}{20}) %% AND THE LINE BELOW (\end{thebibliography})\bibitem{MR0159773}{\scshape Richard Dedekind}, {\bfseries\itshapeEssays on the theory of numbers. {I}: {C}ontinuity and  irrational numbers. {II}: {T}he nature and meaning of numbers}, Dover,  1963\bibitem{MR0120156}{\scshape Leon Henkin},{\itshape On mathematical induction},{\bfseries\itshape The American Mathematical Monthly},vol.~67 (1960), no.~4, pp.~323--338\bibitem{MR12:397m}{\scshape Edmund Landau}, {\bfseries\itshape Foundations of {A}nalysis},Chelsea, 1966\bibitem{MR1965482}{\scshape F.~William Lawvere and Robert Rosebrugh}, {\bfseries\itshape Sets for mathematics}, Cambridge,2003\bibitem{MR0214415}{\scshape Saunders Mac~Lane and Garrett Birkhoff}, {\bfseries\itshape Algebra}, Macmillan, 1967\bibitem{MR941522}\bysame, {\bfseries\itshape Algebra}, third ed., Chelsea, 1988\bibitem{Peano}{\scshape Guiseppe Peano}, {\itshape The principles of arithmetic, presented by a new method},{\bfseries\itshape From {F}rege to {G}{\"o}del}, (Jean van Heijenoort, editor), Harvard, 1967\end{thebibliography}\vspace*{-0.5\baselineskip}% this space adjustment is usually necessary after a bibliography\end{document}%% READ ME%% READ ME%% READ MEINSTRUCTIONS FOR SUPPLYING INFORMATION IN THE CORRECT FORMAT: 1. 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