Giuseppe Peano between mathematics and logic
Subtitle: proceeding of the International conference 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
By: editor, Fulvia Skof
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milan; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9788847018358; 9788847018365
Subjects: Mathematicians; Symbolic and mathematical Logic; Arithmetic; Geometry; Foundations; Biography
Description: 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--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Giuseppe Peano and mathematical analysis in Italy  -- F. Skof; title: Some contributions of Peano to analysis in the light of the work of Belgian mathematicians  -- J. Mawhin; title: Peano, his school and numerical analysis  -- G. Allasia; title: Geometric calculus and geometry foundations in Peano  -- G. Lolli; title: The Formulario between mathematics and history  -- C. S. Roero; title: Giuseppe Peano: a revolutionary in symbolic logic?  -- I. Grattan-Guinness; title: At the origins of Metalogic  -- E. Casari; title: Foundations of geometry in the school of Peano -- E. A. Marchisotto.