Mathematician:Giuseppe Peano

Mathematician
Italian mathematician who contributed significantly to the founding of the fields of mathematical logic and set theory.

Invented many of the symbols used today in these fields.

Worked on the axiomatization of mathematics, and contributed greatly towards the method of mathematical induction. Invented, a simplified version of Latin, intended as an international language. Peano's view was that Latin was already a universally-used international language, and there was no need to invent further such languages.

The recent ubiquity of English in its many forms has since rendered his argument obsolete.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: 27 Aug 1858 in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy
 * 1881: Published first paper
 * 1889: Appointed Professor First Class at the Royal Military Academy
 * 1890: Appointed Extraordinary Professor of infinitesimal calculus at the University of Turin
 * 1891: Made a member of the Academy of Science, Torino
 * 1895: Promoted to Ordinary Professor
 * 1901: Made Knight of the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro
 * 1903: Announced
 * 1905: Made Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
 * 1905: Elected a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome
 * 1917: Made an Officer of the Crown of Italy
 * 1921: Promoted to Commendatore of the Crown of Italy
 * Died: 20 April 1932 in Turin, Italy

Theorems, Definitions and Other Creations

 * Peano's Axioms, also known as the Dedekind-Peano Axioms (for who refined them)
 * Peano Curve
 * Peano Space
 * Cauchy-Peano Theorem (with )



Publications

 * 1884: Contributed significantly towards Course in Infinitesimal Calculus by
 * 1887: Applicazioni Geometriche del Calcolo Infinitesimale
 * 1888:
 * 1889: Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita, in which Peano's Axioms appear
 * 1891: Founded the journal Rivista di matematica
 * 1892:
 * 1893: Lezioni di Analisi Infinitesimale (2 volumes)
 * 1896:
 * 1908: : project completed