Peano, Giuseppe 1858-1932
Italian mathematician

Born in Cuneo, he was educated at the University of Turin, where he later taught and became Extraordinary Professor of Infinitesimal Calculus (1890) and then full Professor in 1895. He did important work on differential equations and discovered continuous curves passing through every point of a square. He later moved to mathematical logic, and advocated writing mathematics in an entirely formal language, the symbolism he invented becoming the basis of that used by Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica. He also promoted Interlingua, a universal language based on uninflected Latin.

Bibliography: Hubert C Kennedy, Giuseppe Peano (1974)