22 Facts About Giuseppe Peano

Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist.

Giuseppe Peano spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin.

Giuseppe Peano wrote an international auxiliary language, Latino sine flexione, which is a simplified version of Classical Latin.

Giuseppe Peano was born and raised on a farm at Spinetta, a hamlet now belonging to Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.

Giuseppe Peano attended the Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and enrolled at the University of Turin in 1876, graduating in 1880 with high honors, after which the University employed him to assist first Enrico D'Ovidio, and then Angelo Genocchi, the Chair of calculus.

In 1887, Giuseppe Peano married Carola Crosio, the daughter of the Turin-based painter Luigi Crosio, known for painting the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna.

The Giuseppe Peano curve was published in 1890 as the first example of a space-filling curve which demonstrated that the unit interval and the unit square have the same cardinality.

In 1890 Giuseppe Peano founded the journal Rivista di Matematica, which published its first issue in January 1891.

Giuseppe Peano was a key participant, presenting a paper on mathematical logic.

Giuseppe Peano started to become increasingly occupied with Formulario to the detriment of his other work.

Giuseppe Peano became so frustrated with publishing delays that he purchased a printing press.

The conference was preceded by the First International Conference of Philosophy where Giuseppe Peano was a member of the patronage committee.

At the conference Giuseppe Peano met Bertrand Russell and gave him a copy of Formulario.

Giuseppe Peano had made advances in the areas of analysis, foundations and logic, made many contributions to the teaching of calculus and contributed to the fields of differential equations and vector analysis.

Giuseppe Peano played a key role in the axiomatization of mathematics and was a leading pioneer in the development of mathematical logic.

Giuseppe Peano had by this stage become heavily involved with the Formulario project and his teaching began to suffer.

In 1903 Giuseppe Peano announced his work on an international auxiliary language called Latino sine flexione.

Also in 1908, Giuseppe Peano took over the chair of higher analysis at Turin.

Giuseppe Peano was elected the director of Academia pro Interlingua.

Giuseppe Peano used his membership of the Accademia dei Lincei to present papers written by friends and colleagues who were not members.

In 1925 Giuseppe Peano switched Chairs unofficially from Infinitesimal Calculus to Complementary Mathematics, a field which better suited his current style of mathematics.

Giuseppe Peano continued teaching at Turin University until the day before he died, when he suffered a fatal heart attack.