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
Even these three can be explained by means of the notions of relation and class; but this requires the Logic of Relations, which Professor Peano has never taken up.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
But the word space, as Peano humorously remarks, is one for which Geometry has no use at all.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
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