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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Some Contributions of Peano to Analysis in the Light of the Work of Belgian Mathematicians
Author : Jean Mawhin
Published in: Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic
Publisher: Springer Milan
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The period of the main original contributions of Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) to analysis goes from 1884 till 1900, and his work deals mostly with a critical analysis of the foundations of differential and integral calculus and with the fundamental theory of ordinary differential equations. During this period, the main analysts in Belgium were Louis-Philippe Gilbert (1832–1892) and his successor Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin (1866–1962), at the
Université Catholique de Louvain
, and Paul Mansion (1844–1919) at the
Université de Gand.
At the
Université de Liège
, Eugène Catalan (1814–1894) retired in 1884, and his successor was Joseph Neuberg (1840– 1926), an expert in the geometry of the triangle. Analysis at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles
was still waiting to be awakened by Théophile De Donder (1872–1957)
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