Died 1932-04-20.
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Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation, for instance, notations of set operations. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in his honor. As part of this effort, he made key contributions to the modern rigor…
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science · Italian mathematician and glottologist (1858–1932) · mathematician · philosopher · university teacher · linguist · also Giuseppe Peano, Peano
Born 27 August 1858 · Died 20 April 1932 · Q191029
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1932· 1 entry
1925· 1 entry
Peano switched Chairs unofficially from Infinitesimal Calculus to Complementary Mathematics, a field which better suited his current style of mathematics
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1921· 1 entry
Awarded commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1921).
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1917· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1917).
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1910· 1 entry
Peano divided his time between teaching, working on texts aimed for secondary schooling including a dictionary of mathematics, and developing and promoting his and other auxiliary languages, becoming a revered member of
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1908· 1 entry
Peano took over the chair of higher analysis at Turin (this appointment was to last for only two years)
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1905· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1905).
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1903· 1 entry
Peano announced his work on an international auxiliary language called Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflexion," later called Interlingua, and the precursor of the Interlingua of the IALA)
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1901).
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1898· 1 entry
Presented a note to the Academy about binary numeration and its ability to be used to represent the sounds of languages
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1897· 1 entry
The first International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich
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1894· 1 entry
“Sui fondamenti della geometria”
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1891· 1 entry
Peano started the Formulario Project
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1890· 2 entries
Peano founded the journal Rivista di Matematica, which published its first issue in January 1891
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As the first example of a space-filling curve which demonstrated that the unit interval and the unit square have the same cardinality
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1887· 1 entry
Peano married Carola Crosio, the daughter of the Turin-based painter Luigi Crosio, known for painting the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna
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1886· 1 entry
Began teaching concurrently at the Royal Military Academy, and was promoted to Professor First Class in 1889
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1880· 1 entry
Studied at University of Turin, Doctor (1876–1880).
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1876· 2 entries
Graduating in 1880 with high honours, after which the University employed him to assist first Enrico D'Ovidio, and then Angelo Genocchi, the Chair of calculus
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Studied at Liceo Classico e Musicale "C. Cavour" (1876–1876).
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-08-27.
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