Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce (Salem (Massachusetts), 4 de abril de 1809 — Cambridge (Massachusetts), 6 de outubro de 1880) foi um matemático estadunidense.
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| Nascimento | 4 de abril de 1809 Salem (Massachusetts) |
| Morte | 6 de outubro de 1880 (71 anos) Cambridge (Massachusetts) |
| Sepultamento | Cambridge Cemetery |
| Nacionalidade | estadunidense |
| Cidadania | Estados Unidos |
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| Cônjuge | Sarah Hunt Mills |
| Filho(a)(s) | Charles Sanders Peirce, Herbert H. D. Peirce, James Mills Peirce |
| Alma mater | Universidade Harvard |
| Ocupação | matemático, astrônomo, estatístico |
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| Empregador(a) | Universidade Harvard |
| Orientador(a)(es/s) | Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Orientado(a)(s) | Joseph Lovering |
| Instituições | Universidade Harvard, National Geodetic Survey |
| Campo(s) | matemática, estatística |
| Tese | 1829 |
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Foi professor da Universidade Harvard por quase 50 anos. Contribuiu com a mecânica celeste, estatística, teoria dos números, álgebra e filosofia da matemática.
Filho de Benjamin Peirce (1778–1881), que trabalhou na biblioteca de Harvard, e Lydia Ropes Nichols Peirce (1781–1868).[1]
Após graduar-se em Harvard, lá permaneceu como tutor (1829), sendo indicado professor de matemática em 1831. A astronomia entrou em sua lista de interesses em 1842, e ele permaneceu como professor em Harvard até morrer. Foi diretor do National Geodetic Survey, de 1867 a 1874.
Pesquisa
editarBenjamin Peirce é reconhecido frequentemente como o primeiro estadunidense a ter suas pesquisas universalmente reconhecidas.[2]
Obras
editar- An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry, Boston: James Munroe and Company. Google Eprints of successive editions 1837–1873.
- An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Boston: James Munroe and Company. Google Eprints of successive editions 1840–1862.
- Physical and Celestial Mechanics, Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Google Eprint of 1855 edition.
- Linear Associative Algebra, lithograph by Peirce 1872. New edition with corrections, notes, and an added 1875 paper by Peirce, plus notes by his son Charles Sanders Peirce, published in the American Journal of Mathematics v. 4, 1881, Johns Hopkins University, pp. 221–226, Google Eprint and as an extract, D. Van Nostrand, 1882, Google Eprint.
Referências
- ↑ Rossiter Johnson; John Howard Brown (1904). The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans ... [S.l.]: The Biographical Society. pp. 269–. Consultado em 28 de agosto de 2011
- ↑ Stigler, Stephen M. (1978). «Mathematical Statistics in the Early States». Annals of Statistics. 6 (2): 239–265. JSTOR 2958876. doi:10.1214/aos/1176344123
Bibliografia
editar- F. P. Matz, "B. O. Peirce: Biography," American Mathematical Monthly, 1895, № 2, 173–179. Google Eprint.
- S. R. Peterson, "Benjamin Peirce: Mathematician and Philosopher," Journal of the History of Ideas, 16, 1955, 89–112.
- P. Meier and S. Zaibel, "Benjamin Peirce and the Howland Will", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75, 1980, 497–506.
- Peirce, Benjamin (1852), "Criterion for the Rejection of Doubtful Observations", Astronomical Journal II 45 and Errata to the original paper. Link pages for their non-PDF images of the article and its errata.
- Peirce, Benjamin (1872, 1881), Linear Associative Algebra. Lithograph edition by Peirce 1872. New edition with corrections, notes, and an added 1875 paper by Peirce, plus notes by his son Charles Sanders Peirce, published in the American Journal of Mathematics v. 4, n. 1, 1881, Johns Hopkins University, pp. 221–226, Google Eprint, doi:10.2307/2369153 JSTOR and as an extract, D. Van Nostrand, 1882, Google Eprint, Internet Archive Eprint.
- Peirce, Benjamin (1878), "On Peirce's Criterion", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 13 (whole series), v. 5 (new series), for May 1877 – May 1878, Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, pp. 348–351. Google Eprint. JSTOR abstract.
- Peirce, Charles Sanders (1870/1871/1873) "Appendix No. 21. On the Theory of Errors of Observation", Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1870, pp. 200–224. Coast Survey Report submitted February 18, 1871, published 1873 by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Reports 1837–1965. NOAA PDF Eprint (link goes to 1870 Report's p. 200, PDF's p. 215). Reprinted in pp. 140–160 of Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition: Volume 3, 1872–1878, Christian J. W. Kloesel et al., eds., Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253372011.
- Stigler, Stephen M. (1980). «Mathematical Statistics in the Early States». In: Stephen M. Stigler. American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II. I. New York: Arno Press
- Stigler, Stephen M. (1989). «Mathematical Statistics in the Early States». In: Peter Duren. A Century of Mathematics in America. III. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. pp. 537–564
Ligações externas
editar- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., «Benjamin Peirce», MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (em inglês), Universidade de St. Andrews
- Benjamin Peirce (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Benjamin Peirce (em inglês) no Find a Grave [fonte confiável?]
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, and Walsh, Alison (2005), "Benjamin Peirce", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Eprint.
- O'Connor, John J., and Robertson, Edmund F. (2005), "Benjamin Peirce", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, Eprint.
- Hogan, Edward R. (2008), Of the Human Heart: A Biography of Benjamin Peirce, Lehigh University Press, catalog page discussion of Peirce.
