Peano
Americannoun
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But in 1931, Gödel showed that no such proof can be found within Peano arithmetic itself.
From Nature ● Jul. 2, 2014
The basis for “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” is a set of axioms about integers, or whole numbers, proposed by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano in the late nineteenth century.
From Nature ● Jul. 2, 2014
The fractal globule was first described by an Italian mathematician called Guiseppe Peano in 1890, but it was completely theoretical.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2011
And geometry has not only been led to the construction of many non-Euclidian spaces, but has even, with Peano and his school, been freed from the bonds of any necessary spatial interpretation whatsoever.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
The first serious advance in real logic since the time of the Greeks was made independently by Peano and Frege—both mathematicians.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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