(* Title: FOL/ex/Natural_Numbers.thy ID: $Id: Natural_Numbers.thy,v 1.8 2005/06/17 14:15:09 haftmann Exp $ Author: Markus Wenzel, TU Munich *) header {* Natural numbers *} theory Natural_Numbers imports FOL begin text {* Theory of the natural numbers: Peano's axioms, primitive recursion. (Modernized version of Larry Paulson's theory "Nat".) \medskip *} typedecl nat arities nat :: "term" consts Zero :: nat ("0") Suc :: "nat => nat" rec :: "[nat, 'a, [nat, 'a] => 'a] => 'a" axioms induct [case_names 0 Suc, induct type: nat]: "P(0) ==> (!!x. P(x) ==> P(Suc(x))) ==> P(n)" Suc_inject: "Suc(m) = Suc(n) ==> m = n" Suc_neq_0: "Suc(m) = 0 ==> R" rec_0: "rec(0, a, f) = a" rec_Suc: "rec(Suc(m), a, f) = f(m, rec(m, a, f))" lemma Suc_n_not_n: "Suc(k) \ k" proof (induct k) show "Suc(0) \ 0" proof assume "Suc(0) = 0" thus False by (rule Suc_neq_0) qed fix n assume hyp: "Suc(n) \ n" show "Suc(Suc(n)) \ Suc(n)" proof assume "Suc(Suc(n)) = Suc(n)" hence "Suc(n) = n" by (rule Suc_inject) with hyp show False by contradiction qed qed constdefs add :: "[nat, nat] => nat" (infixl "+" 60) "m + n == rec(m, n, \x y. Suc(y))" lemma add_0 [simp]: "0 + n = n" by (unfold add_def) (rule rec_0) lemma add_Suc [simp]: "Suc(m) + n = Suc(m + n)" by (unfold add_def) (rule rec_Suc) lemma add_assoc: "(k + m) + n = k + (m + n)" by (induct k) simp_all lemma add_0_right: "m + 0 = m" by (induct m) simp_all lemma add_Suc_right: "m + Suc(n) = Suc(m + n)" by (induct m) simp_all lemma "(!!n. f(Suc(n)) = Suc(f(n))) ==> f(i + j) = i + f(j)" proof - assume "!!n. f(Suc(n)) = Suc(f(n))" thus ?thesis by (induct i) simp_all qed end