Alessandro Padoa
Alessandro Padoa (born October 14, 1868 in Venice , † November 25, 1937 in Genoa ) was an Italian mathematician and logician.
Life
Padoa came from a Jewish family, went to school in Venice and then studied in Padua to become an engineer. He then went to the University of Turin (1889 and 1894/95, in between he studied in Bologna), where he received his Laureate degree in mathematics in 1895 and came under the influence of Giuseppe Peano , whose close collaborator and friend he became. After the teaching qualification in Turin in 1896, Padoa was a teacher in Pinerolo , Rome (1899 to 1904 at a technical school), Cagliari and from 1909 in Genoa at the Vittorio Emanuel Polytechnic and from 1924 at the Cristoforo Colombo high school . He also taught mathematics at the Naval Academy from 1911 (later alternating with Giuseppe Vitali ). In 1935 he retired as a teacher, but still taught mathematical logic at the University of Genoa from 1932 to 1936.
He became known for his clear presentation of the axiomatic method at mathematicians and philosophy congresses, including the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900 (and later at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome, Cambridge and Bologna) and thus popularized Peano's methods.
His ideas influenced the early development of model theory by Alfred Tarski . He also lectured at the universities of Brussels, Pavia, Padua, Bern, Padua, Cagliari and Geneva. He also dealt with mathematics education and gave a lecture on it at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1908.
In 1934 he received a mathematics prize from the Accademia dei Lincei .
He was married to Elisabetta Padoa and had two sons and a daughter. Padoa had wide-ranging cultural interests and was active in the Genoa Jewish community and the Zionist movement.
Fonts
- La Logique Déductive dans sa dernière Phase de Développement, Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1912 (preface by Peano, preprint in the Revue de metaphysique et de morale, Volume 19, 1911, pp. 828-832 and Volume 20, 1912, p. 48 -67, 207-231)
- Un Nouveau Système de Définitions pour la Géométrie Euclidienne, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Paris 1900, pp. 353-363.
- Essai d'une théorie algébrique des nombres entiers, précédé d'une introduction logique à une théorie déductive quelconque, Bibliothèque de Congress Internationale de Philosophie, Volume 3, Paris: Colin 1901, pp. 309–365, also in: L'Enseignement Mathématique , Volume 5, 1903
- partly translated into English as: Logical introduction to any deductive theory, 1900, in: Jean van Heijenoort, A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879–1931, Harvard Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 118-23.
- Matematica intuitiva, Palermo 1923
- Ce que la Logique doit a Peano, Congres International de Philosophie Scientifique, Paris 1935, Actualites scientifiques et industrielles No. 395, 1937, 31-37
literature
- Hubert C. Kennedy , Article Padoa in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Alessandro Padoa. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Clara Silvia Roero, entry in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 80 (2014), Treccani
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Padoa, Alessandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian logician and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1937 |
| Place of death | Genoa |