Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations a… - Giuseppe Peano

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Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.

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Giuseppe Peano (27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician, logician, and one of the founders of modern mathematical logic and set theory. His work, summarized in Formulario mathematico (1895) was highly influential and the standard Peano axioms of the natural numbers are named in his honor.

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Quaestiones, quae ad mathematicae fundamenta pertinent, etsi hisce temporibus a multis tractatae, satisfacienti solutione et adhuc carent. Hic difficultas maxime en sermonis ambiguitate oritur. Quare summi interest verba ipsa, quibus utimur attente perpendere.

1. Zero is a number. 2. The successor of any number is another number. 3. There are no two numbers with the same successor. 4. Zero is not the successor of a number. 5. Every property of zero, which belongs to the successor of every number with this property, belongs to all numbers.

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Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

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