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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 .
Neither a mercantile nor a political life satisfied Pierce, and in 1826 he accepted the position of Librarian at Harvard. He oversaw preparation of a catalogue of the Library which was published in 1830-31 in four volumes: the first two containing an alphabetical catalogue by authors, the third a systematic index, and the fourth a catalogue of maps.
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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
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.
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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. [b] 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 ...
State President of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet, awarded him, posthumously, Vietnam's Friendship Medal in December 2007. [11] [12] [13] In Ho Chi Minh City, Phu My Hung Corporation's headquarter building was renamed Lawrence S. Ting building in memory of its chairman in 2005. [41] The Lawrence Ting Memorial Fund was set up in Vietnam in 2005. [42]