Alessandro Padoa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano
Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1868
Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy
Date of Death: 25-Nov-1937
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Alessandro Padoa
- Alessandro Padoa (14 October 1868 – 25 November 1937) 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.
- There is an analogous problem in axiomatic theories, namely deciding whether a given axiom is independent of the other axioms. The following description of Padoa's career is included in a biography of Peano: He attended secondary school in Venice, engineering school in Padua, and the University of Turin, from which he received a degree in mathematics in 1895.
- Although he was never a student of Peano, he was an ardent disciple and, from 1896 on, a collaborator and friend.
- He taught in secondary schools in Pinerolo, Rome, Cagliari, and (from 1909) at the Technical Institute in Genoa.
- He also held positions at the Normal School in Aquila and the Naval School in Genoa, and, beginning in 1898, he gave a series of lectures at the Universities of Brussels, Pavia, Berne, Padua, Cagliari, and Geneva.
- He gave papers at congresses of philosophy and mathematics in Paris, Cambridge, Livorno, Parma, Padua, and Bologna.
- In 1934 he was awarded the ministerial prize in mathematics by the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).The congresses in Paris in 1900 were particularly notable.
- Padoa's addresses at these congresses have been well remembered for their clear and unconfused exposition of the modern axiomatic method in mathematics.
- In fact, he is said to be "the first … to get all the ideas concerning defined and undefined concepts completely straight".
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