Giuseppe Peano between mathematics and logic : proceeding of the International congress in honour of Giuseppe Peano on the 150th anniversary of his birth and the centennial of the Formulario Mathematico, Turin (Italy), October 2-3, 2008 / editor, Fulvia Skof.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Skof, Fulvia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peano, Giuseppe, 1858-1932.

Peano, Giuseppe.

Mathematicians--Italy--Biography.

Mathematicians.

Italy.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Arithmetic--Foundations.

Arithmetic.

Geometry--Foundations.

Geometry.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Milano] : Springer Verlag, 2011.

Summary:

Contains the papers developing out the presentations given at the International Conference organized by the Torino Academy of Sciences and the Department of Mathematics Giuseppe Peano of the Torino University to celebrate the 150th anniversary of G. Peano's birth - one of the greatest figures in modern mathematics and logic and the most important mathematical logician in Italy - a century after the publication of Formulario Mathematico, a great attempt to systematise Mathematics in symbolic form.

Contents:

Giuseppe Peano and mathematical analysis in Italy / F. Skof

Some contributions of Peano to analysis in the light of the work of Belgian mathematicians / J. Mawhin

Peano, his school and numerical analysis / G. Allasia

Geometric calculus and geometry foundations in Peano / G. Lolli

The Formulario between mathematics and history / C. S. Roero

Giuseppe Peano: a revolutionary in symbolic logic? / I. Grattan-Guinness

At the origins of Metalogic / E. Casari

Foundations of geometry in the school of Peano / E. A. Marchisotto.

ISBN:

9788847018358

8847018358

OCLC:

690089200