Giuseppe Peano

1858 - 1932

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Giuseppe Peano was the founder of symbolic logic and his interests centred on the foundations of mathematics and on the development of a formal logical language.
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Honours awarded to Giuseppe Peano
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Speaker at International Congress1897

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