The forgotten mathematical legacy of Peano
Résumé
The formulations that Peano gave to many mathematical notions at the end of the 19th century were so perfect and modern that they have become standard today. A formal language of logic that he created, enabled him to perceive mathematics with great precision and depth. He described mathematics axiomatically basing the reasoning exclusively on logical and set-theoretical primitive terms and properties, which was revolutionary at that time. Yet, numerous Peano’s contributions remain either unremembered or underestimated.
Mots clés
Peano
surface area
mean value theorem
Dirichlet function
Peano's counterexamples
Weierstrass maximum theorem
foundation
reduction of mathematics to sets
mathematical definitions
definitions by abstraction
axiom of choice
Peano's axioms of arithmetic
Peano's axioms of geometry
affine exterior algebra
reduction formulae
differentiability
lower and upper limits of sets
tangency
optimality conditions
linear differential equations
nonlinear differential equations
Peano's filling curve
interior
closure
distributive families
anti-distributive families
compactness
planar measure
measure theory
abstract measures
differentiation of measures
sweeping-tangent theorem
1886 existence theorem
proof
subtangents