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Benjamin Peirce是哈佛大学天文学和数学Perkins教授,也是当时美国最有影响的数学家。
Benjamin Peirce Born 4 April 1809(1809-04-04) Died 6 October 1880 (aged 71) Nationality American Fields mathematics statistics science policy Institutions Harvard University Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Alma mater Harvard University Known for Peirce's criterion for outliers (statistics) Definition of mathematics as the science of necessary truths linear algebras celestial mechanics Influenced Charles Sanders Peirce 简介编辑本段回目录Benjamin Peirce (pronounced /ˈpɜrs/ purse[1], (April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for about fifty years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. After graduating from Harvard, he remained as a tutor (1829), and was subsequently appointed professor of mathematics in 1831. He added astronomy to his portfolio in 1842, and remained as Harvard professor until his death. In addition, he was instrumental in the development of Harvard's science curriculum, served as the college librarian, and was director of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1867 to 1874. As a person he was devoutly Christian, seeing "mathematics as study of God's work by God's creatures." He married Sarah Hunt Mills, the daughter of U.S. Senator Elijah Hunt Mills. The husband and wife had a daughter and three sons: Charles Sanders Peirce a famous logician, James Mils Peirce, who also taught mathematics at Harvard, and Herbert Henry Davis Peirce, who worked for Herter Brothers. 相关链接编辑本段回目录参考文献编辑本段回目录
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