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    Benjamin Peirce ForMemRS HonFRSE (/ˈpɜːrs/; April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately...
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    Charles Sanders Peirce (/pɜːrs/ PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is...
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    referential transparency). The term was introduced by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in 1870 in the context of elements of algebras that remain invariant...
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  • Benjamin Peirce (30 September 1778 – 26 July 1831) was librarian of the Harvard Library from 1826 to 1831. Peirce, born in Salem, 30 September 1778, was...
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  • Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Benjamin Peirce may also refer to: Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1854–1914), Hollis...
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  • associative algebras was introduced by Benjamin Peirce (1870, proposition 41, page 13). A similar but more complicated Peirce decomposition for Jordan algebras...
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  • In robust statistics, Peirce's criterion is a rule for eliminating outliers from data sets, which was devised by Benjamin Peirce. In data sets containing...
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  • were forgeries. It is famous for the forensic use of mathematics by Benjamin Peirce as an expert witness. Sylvia Ann Howland died in 1865, leaving roughly...
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  • x^{n}=0} . The term, along with its sister idempotent, was introduced by Benjamin Peirce in the context of his work on the classification of algebras. This...
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    theory of determinants". Benjamin Peirce published his Linear Associative Algebra (1872), and his son Charles Sanders Peirce extended the work later....
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  • schizophrenic artist in the David Cronenberg film Scanners Benjamin Peirce (disambiguation) Benjamin Pearse (1832–1902), Canadian public servant Ben Pearce...
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    Moon's near side. It was named after the American mathematician Benjamin Peirce. Peirce lies to the north of the craters Yerkes and Picard, and southeast...
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    Euler's identity is "the most famous formula in all mathematics". And Benjamin Peirce, a 19th-century American philosopher, mathematician, and professor...
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  • Australia Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), American mathematician, known for Peirce's Criterion, father of Charles Charles Sanders Peirce (C. S. Peirce) (1839–1914)...
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  • Herschel's notation underwent a slight change in Benjamin Peirce's books, to remove the chief objection to them; Peirce wrote: "cos[−1] x," "log[−1] x."[c] […]...
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    Benjamin Peirce, "Criterion for the Rejection of Doubtful Observations", Astronomical Journal II 45 (1852) and Errata to the original paper. Peirce,...
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  • 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...
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    dropped out after his second year. He also attended the Peirce School of Business (now Peirce College), then one of the most prominent business schools...
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    game, known as "the Devil on Two Sticks," was published in 1855 by Benjamin Peirce. Devil sticks vary widely in size and construction materials, but the...
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the eldest son of Sarah Hunt (Mills) Peirce and Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), a professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard...
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    Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Dallas, and the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West...
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    This Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography consolidates numerous references to the writings of Charles Sanders Peirce, including letters, manuscripts, publications...
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    extending between the extremes of [...]". The American astronomer Benjamin Peirce seems to have adopted that terminology and to have been one of its...
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  • Senator Peirce may refer to: Benjamin Peirce (librarian) (1778–1831), Massachusetts State Senate Clarence V. Peirce (1850–1923), Wisconsin State Senate...
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    Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank...
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    Benjamin Osgood Peirce (February 11, 1854 – January 14, 1914) was an American mathematician and a holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural...
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    graduating with a BSc in 1858. Newcomb studied mathematics under Benjamin Peirce, who also often invited the poor scholar to his home. Newcomb's biographer...
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    sufficient examples, it remained to classify them. In an 1870 monograph, Benjamin Peirce classified the more than 150 hypercomplex number systems of dimension...
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  • Peirce College is a private college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It focuses on adult education. In 1865, Thomas May Peirce, a Philadelphia educator,...
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    f∘3(x) meaning f(f(f(x))). For the same purpose, f [n](x) was used by Benjamin Peirce whereas Alfred Pringsheim and Jules Molk suggested nf(x) instead. In...
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