Peano

American  

[pee-ah-noh, pe-ah-naw] / piˈɑ noʊ, pɛˈɑ nɔ /

noun

1. Giuseppe 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.

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Example Sentences

In my own past research with young children, it seemed to me that their thinking about numbers was more closely related to Giuseppe Peano's basic concept of “successor” than cardinality or quantity.

From Scientific American

For my money, the elucidation of the foundations of mathematics a century ago, by Cantor, Frege, Peano, Hilbert, Russell, Zermelo, Gödel, Turing, and others, still stands as one of the greatest triumphs of human thought, up there with evolution or quantum mechanics or anything else.

From Scientific American

In it Turing, considered a forefather of computer science, wrestles with questions about mathematical notation and phraseology, analyzing and referring to the work of mathematicians and thinkers including Giuseppe Peano, René Descartes and Louis François Antoine Arbogast.

From New York Times

Peano’s axioms can be expressed in the notation of symbolic logic, from which all basic arithmetical operations, such as multiplication, can be derived.

From Nature

But in 1931, Gödel showed that no such proof can be found within Peano arithmetic itself.

From Nature