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Benjamin Peirce ForMemRS HonFRSE (/ ˈ p ɜːr s /; [1] April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics , statistics , number theory , algebra , and the philosophy of mathematics .
Peirce married Isabella Turnbull Landreth in 1882. Together, they had two daughters. [3]Removed by several degrees, he was a cousin of Charles Sanders Peirce, [8] whose father, Benjamin Peirce, worked as the academic advisor to Joseph Lovering, Benjamin Osgood Peirce's predecessor as holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Benjamin Peirce (30 September 1778 – 26 July 1831) was librarian of the Harvard Library from 1826 to 1831. Early life and education. Peirce, born in Salem, 30 ...
USCS Benjamin Peirce was a schooner that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1855 to 1868. The Coast Survey acquired Benjamin Peirce in 1855 and placed her in service along the United States East Coast , where she spent her entire Coast Survey career.
Peirce was born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Sarah Hunt Mills and Benjamin Peirce, himself a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard University. [a] At age 12, Charles read his older brother's copy of Richard Whately's Elements of Logic, then the leading English-language text on the subject. So ...
Benjamin or Ben Pierce may refer to: Benjamin Pierce (governor) (1757–1839), governor of New Hampshire in the 1820s, father of U.S. President Franklin Pierce Benjamin Pierce (1841–1853) , the last surviving son of U.S. President Franklin Pierce; died in a train accident just before his father's inauguration
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Benjamin Peirce may also refer to: Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1854–1914), Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University; USCS Benjamin Peirce, a survey ship in commission in the United States Coast Survey from 1855 to 1868
Peirce was born May 1, 1834, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [4] He was the eldest son of Sarah Hunt (Mills) [3] Peirce and Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), a professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard University. [1] The family was considered part of the Boston Brahmin elite class. The surname is pronounced to rhyme with "purse ⓘ ". [5]