Metamath Proof Explorer


Theorem peano3

Description: The successor of any natural number is not zero. One of Peano's five postulates for arithmetic. Proposition 7.30(3) of TakeutiZaring p. 42. (Contributed by NM, 3-Sep-2003)

Ref Expression
Assertion peano3
|- ( A e. _om -> suc A =/= (/) )

Proof

Step Hyp Ref Expression
1 nsuceq0
 |-  suc A =/= (/)
2 1 a1i
 |-  ( A e. _om -> suc A =/= (/) )