tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433841880619171855.post5883969731937648061..comments2024-03-27T21:09:44.320+00:00Comments on Pat'sBlog: On This Day in Math - August 27Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433841880619171855.post-29077835756349871182012-08-27T15:27:16.131+01:002012-08-27T15:27:16.131+01:001858 Birthdate of Giuseppe Peano (27 Aug 1858; 20 ...<i>1858 Birthdate of Giuseppe Peano (27 Aug 1858; 20 Apr 1932) Italian mathematician who founded symbolic logic.</i><br /><br />I've been here before. Peano made a substantial contribution to the history of symbolic logic, especially the fact that it was his work that inspired Russell. However I think Boole, Jevons, Demorgan, Venn, McColl, Frege, Peirce, Ladd-Franklin and quite a few others who were doing symbolic logic before Peano might object to him being called its founder. To say nothing of the Stoics!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com