[FOM] Who coined the term ''natural number''?

Arnold Neumaier Arnold.Neumaier at univie.ac.at
Fri Aug 20 06:02:03 EDT 2010


I have two historical questions:

1. Who coined the term ''natural number''?

2. Who was the first to call 0 a natural number
(rather than a cardinal number)?


Arnold Neumaier



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