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Giuseppe Peano

1858 - 1932

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Giuseppe Peano (; Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe peˈaːno]; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Peano is the 72nd most popular mathematician (down from 69th in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 518th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Giuseppe Peano was a mathematician who is most famous for his work on the natural numbers.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giuseppe Peano ranks 72 out of 1,004Before him are Richard Dedekind, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Hermann Minkowski, Andrey Kolmogorov, Gaspard Monge, and Norbert Wiener. After him are Stanislaw Ulam, Siméon Denis Poisson, Bhāskara II, Regiomontanus, János Bolyai, and Katherine Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Giuseppe Peano ranks 13Before him are Rudolf Diesel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Omar Mukhtar. After him are Emmeline Pankhurst, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Charles de Foucauld, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Franz Boas. Among people deceased in 1932, Giuseppe Peano ranks 8Before him are Wilhelm Ostwald, Margaret Brown, Sophia of Prussia, Eduard Bernstein, Aristide Briand, and Ronald Ross. After him are Manuel II of Portugal, King C. Gillette, Paul Doumer, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Gustav Meyrink, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Peano ranks 562 out of 5,161Before him are Pope Agapetus I (490), Lavinia Fontana (1552), Elena Ferrante (1943), Antonello da Messina (1430), Giosuè Carducci (1835), and Carlo Ponti (1912). After him are Ornella Muti (1955), Alberto Ascari (1918), Petronius Maximus (396), Marcello Lippi (1948), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), and Pope Benedict V (930).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giuseppe Peano ranks 10Before him are Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Luca Pacioli (1445), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Archytas (-428), and Philolaus (-470). After him are Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Aloysius Lilius (1510), Scipione del Ferro (1465), and Vito Volterra (1860).