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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Peano has received more than 445,683 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Giuseppe Peano is the 69th most popular mathematician (up from 74th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from Italy (up from 554th 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 69 out of 1,004. Before him are Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, Simon Stevin, Friedrich Bessel, Abraham de Moivre, and Ludolph van Ceulen. After him are Richard Dedekind, Alexander Grothendieck, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Zhang Heng, and Alfred North Whitehead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Giuseppe Peano ranks 12. Before him are Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Gustaf V of Sweden, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, Omar Mukhtar, and Emmeline Pankhurst. After him are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Christiaan Eijkman, Charles de Foucauld, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Franz Boas. Among people deceased in 1932, Giuseppe Peano ranks 5. Before him are Wilhelm Ostwald, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Eduard Bernstein, and Manuel II of Portugal. After him are Aristide Briand, Paul Doumer, Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Errico Malatesta, and George Eastman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Peano ranks 518 out of 5,161. Before him are Salvatore Adamo (1943), Pope Hilarius (415), Pope Callixtus I (180), Pope Stephen IV (770), Lucius Caesar (-17), and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666). After him are Trebonianus Gallus (206), Alcide De Gasperi (1881), Alberto Ascari (1918), Pope Stephen III (720), Pietro Aretino (1492), and Edmondo De Amicis (1846).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giuseppe Peano ranks 10. Before him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Archytas (-428), and Philolaus (-470). After him are Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Aloysius Lilius (1510), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Scipione del Ferro (1465), and Giambattista della Porta (1535).

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