Benjamin Peirce

˜Benjamin Peirce: mathematician and philosopher™, Journal of the history of ideas, 16:

I Am Wearing Stolen Socks 2009

Benjamin Peirce did not think of himself as a philosopher in any academic sense, yet his work manifests interests of this kind, in two different ways.

I Am Wearing Stolen Socks 2009

Further examples of in - ternational cooperation in the peaceful investigation of our cosmos were provided by corrections of Lever - rier's computations by John Couch Adams in England and Benjamin Peirce at Harvard.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

Professor Benjamin Peirce, which the average student

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Benjamin Peirce, of

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

Notable among the mathematicians were Nathaniel Bowditch, Benjamin Peirce, and Thomas Hill, who was president of Antioch College and of Harvard

Unitarianism in America George Willis Cooke 1885

The following letter to Professor Benjamin Peirce, who was then Superintendent of the Coast Survey, shows, however, his unfailing interest in the bearing of scientific researches on questions of public utility.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

So entirely did he seem to have recovered, that in the course of the winter the following proposition was made to him by his friend, Professor Benjamin Peirce, then Superintendent of the Coast Survey.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Professor Benjamin Peirce; but I did not know that he had interested himself in political economy until, on the occasion in question, I passed an evening with him at the house where he was a guest.

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

So, instead of founding the office in Washington, it was established at Cambridge, the seat of Harvard University, where it could have the benefit of the technical knowledge of experts, and especially of Professor Benjamin Peirce, who was recognized as the leading mathematician of America.

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872