Giuseppe Peano: a Revolutionary in Symbolic Logic?

Ivor Grattan-Guinness ()
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness: University of Middlesex

Chapter 7 in Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic, 2011, pp 135-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper I consider Peano’s main mathematical concerns in the 1880s, and the relations between them. I shall propose that he had a sort of magical moment that led him to create his mathematical logic, but also that he was obscure, or at least unclear, about one of the major attendant changes in thought. The material covered is summarised historically in Grattan-Guinness (2000, especially chs. 2, 4 and 5), and treated in more detail in various works cited there.

Keywords: Mathematical Logic; Traditional Theory; Algebraic Logic; Short Book; Constituent Proposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-1836-5_7

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