Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita

by Guiseppe Peano

$16,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Turin: Bocca Brothers, 1889. First edition, and a fine copy in the original printed wrappers, of Peano’s most important work, which contains the first statement of the famous ‘Peano axioms’ for the natural numbers and which remains of seminal importance to mathematics and mathematical logic. “Peano’s most important contribution to the development of the theory and practice of the axiomatic method was his

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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