How to escape Tennenbaum's theorem

Abstract

We construct a theory definitionally equivalent to first-order Peano arithmetic PA and a non-standard computable model of this theory. The same technique allows us to construct a theory definitionally equivalent to Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory ZF that has a computable model.

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