Mathematician:Giuseppe Peano

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.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: 27 Aug 1858 in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy
 * Died: 20 April 1932 in Turin, Italy

Theorems and Definition

 * Peano's Axioms, also known as the Dedekind-Peano Axioms (for Richard Dedekind who refined them)
 * Peano Space

Books and Papers

 * 1884: Contributed significantly towards Course in Infinitesimal Calculus by Angelo Genocchi
 * 1888: Geometrical Calculus
 * 1889: Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita, in which Peano's Axioms appear
 * 1891: Founded the journal Rivista di matematica
 * 1892: Formulario Mathematico
 * 1896: Formulario Mathematico (new edition)
 * 1908: Formulario Mathematico project completed