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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 ...
Peirce is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include: ... Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), ... Juliette Peirce (died 1934), second wife of the ...
Benjamin Pierce (December 25, 1757 – April 1, 1839) was an American politician who twice served as the governor of New Hampshire from 1827 to 1828 and from 1829 to 1830. Pierce fought during the American Revolutionary War before becoming a Democratic-Republican Party politician.
M*A*S*H television series cast members c. 1974. Back row: Larry Linville, Wayne Rogers, and Gary Burghoff. Front row: Loretta Swit, Alan Alda, and McLean Stevenson This is a list of characters from the M*A*S*H franchise created by Richard Hooker, covering the various fictional characters appearing in the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968) and its sequels M*A*S*H Goes to Maine ...
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 began his lifelong fascination with logic and reasoning. [14]
She allegedly wore all black for the rest of her life, spent time sending letters to her deceased son, Benjamin, and even held séances in an effort to communicate with him. [5] It is believed that this accident, as well as the death of his wife Jane in 1863, accelerated his drinking habits. Pierce would die of cirrhosis of the liver in 1869. [12]