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Giuseppe Peano
(27 Aug 1858 - 20 Apr 1932)
Italian mathematician who founded symbolic logic which used symbols to make equations more easily understood by anyone regardless of their own language.
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Science Quotes by Giuseppe Peano (1 quote)
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.
— Giuseppe Peano
Arithmetices Principia, (1889)
Quotes by others about Giuseppe Peano (1)
Mathematicians pretend to count by means of a system supposed to satisfy the so-called Peano axioms. In fact, the piano has only 88 keys; hence, anyone counting with these axioms is soon played out.
In Mathematics Made Difficult (1971). As quoted in Michael Stueben and Diane Sandford,
Twenty Years Before the Blackboard (1998), 131.
See also:
- 27 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Peano's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
