Alessandro Padoa
Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano (1868-1937) · Italy · On the map · Academics · Died at 69
Alessandro Padoa was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions.
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About this person
There is an analogous problem in axiomatic theories, namely deciding whether a given axiom is independent of the other axioms.
Country
Italy
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1868 to 1937 · aged 69