Peano
Americannoun
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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
But in 1931, Gödel showed that no such proof can be found within Peano arithmetic itself.
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
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 Russell, Bertrand
Dedekind and Peano have worked out such ordinal theories of the number concept.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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