Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Turin. In 1889 Peano published his famous axioms, called the Peano Postulates, which defined the natural numbers, . These were published in a pamphlet written in Latin, Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita . Below is a modern version (more or less in English). Basically the same axioms were propounded a decade earlier, in 1879, by Richard Dedekind (1831-1916) in his Über die Theorie der ganzen algebraischen Zahlen, although somehow Peano's name is the one usually associated with them.


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