Giuseppe Peano between mathematics and logic

By Fulvia Skof

Subjects: Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Biography, Logic, symbolic and mathematical, Geometry, Foundations, Arithmetic, Mathematicians

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--