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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 .
The wife of Jacobite lawyer James Erskine, Lord Grange, Chiesley was kidnapped by her husband for allegedly writing anti-Hanoverian letters. She was detained in multiple locations [15] across Scotland, and despite a rescue attempt by her lawyer Thomas Hope, she died in captivity. Died in captivity 13 years 1753 Elizabeth Canning: 19 England
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.
Peirce, born in Salem, 30 September 1778, was the son of Jerahmeel and Sarah (Ropes) Peirce. After graduating from Harvard College at the head of the class of 1801, he returned to Salem and entered the India trade with his father.
Jane Means Pierce (née Appleton; March 12, 1806 – December 2, 1863) was the wife of Franklin Pierce and the first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857. She married Franklin Pierce, then a congressman, in 1834 despite her family's misgivings. She refused to live in Washington, D.C., and in 1842, she convinced her husband to retire from ...
Victor Peirce's de facto wife, Wendy, later claimed that her husband planned and carried out the murders with the fellow accused. [2] The family was furthermore involved in the infamous Melbourne gangland killings , where it suffered a major blow, with the death of one of its highest-ranking members, Victor Peirce, and resulting in its power ...
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
On 22 June 2007, Victoria Police arrested Faruk Orman in the western suburb of Sunshine, alleging he was the driver for Peirce's killers. In September 2007 Vince Benvenuto —brother of Frank Benvenuto , an underworld identity reputedly under the protection of Victor Peirce and murdered May 2000—was arrested for drug trafficking .