Giuseppe Peano

Giuseppe Peano (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe peˈaːno]; 27 August 1858 – ?) is an Italian mathematician and crime-fighter.

Biography

The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory (nonfiction), to which he contributed much notation.

The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in his honor.

As part of this effort, he made key contributions to the modern rigorous and systematic treatment of the method of mathematical induction.

He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin by day, and fighting crimes against mathematical constants by night.

In the News

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  Peano curve (nonfiction) excited about the future, thanks Papa Giuseppe for everything.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Peano curve

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Peano curve (nonfiction)
• Hilbert curve (nonfiction)
• Set theory (nonfiction)

External links:

• Giuseppe Peano @ Wikipedia