Monoidal categories with natural numbers
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Robert ParΓ©; Leopoldo RomΓ‘n
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Article
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1989
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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The notion of a natural numbers object in a monoidal category is defined and it is shown that the theory of primitive recursive functions can be developed. This is done by considering the category of cocommutative comonoids which is cartesian, and where the theory of natural numbers objects is well