History of The Problem
The list of eleven axioms can be found explicitly written down in the works of Richard Dedekind, although they were obviously known and used by mathematicians long before then. Dedekind was the first, though, who seemed to be asking if these axioms were somehow sufficient to tell us everything we could want to know about the integers. The question was put on a firm footing as a problem in logic and model theory sometime in the 1960s by Alfred Tarski, and by the 1980s it had become known as Tarski's high school algebra problem.
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