Abstract:
Let $R$ be a set of positive integers with usual operations of addition and multiplication
$$
a+b=s(a,b);\quad a\cdot b=m(a,b);\quad a,b\in R.
$$
A correspondence is set up between each one-to-one (Peano) mapping $p$ of the space
$R\times R$ onto the whole of $R$ and the two functions
$$
\begin{aligned}
\sigma(c)&=\sigma[p(a,b)]=s(a,b);\\
\mu(c)&=\mu[p(a,b)]=m(a,b).
\end{aligned}
$$
It is proved in this note that there can be no Peano mapping for which $\sigma(\mu(c))=\mu(\sigma(c))$
for all $c$ in $R$.