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
A résumé of the work which has been thus done may be found in the stately volumes of the Principia Mathematica of Whitehead and Russell, or—to a large extent—in the Formulario Matematico of Professor Peano.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
In Geometry, as in other parts of mathematics, Peano and his disciples have done work of the very greatest merit as regards principles.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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