Peano: Life and Works of Giuseppe Peano

All students of mathematics know of Peano's postulates for the natural numbers and his famous space-filling curve, yet their knowledge often stops there. Part of the reason is that there has not until now been a full-scale study of his life and works. This must surely be surprising, when one realizes the length of his academic career (over 50 years) and the extent of his publications (over 200) in a wide variety of fields, many of which had immediate and long-term effects on the development...