Benjamin Osgood Peirce

Benjamin Osgood Peirce
Born (1854-02-11)11 February 1854
Beverly, Massachusetts
Died 14 January 1914(1914-01-14) (aged 59)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
Scientific career
Institutions Harvard University
Doctoral students William Elwood Byerly

Benjamin Osgood Peirce (11 February 1854 Beverly, Massachusetts, USA – 14 January 1914 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an American mathematician and a holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1888 until his death in 1914.[1][2] Osgood is buried at Beverly's Central Cemetery. [3] Removed by several degrees, he was a cousin of Charles Sanders Peirce[4], whose father, Benjamin Peirce, worked as the Adcademic advisor to Joseph Lovering, Benjamin Osgood Peirce's predecessor as holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

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References

  1. ↑ Hall, Edwin H. (1919), "Biographical Memoir of Benjamin Osgood Peirce 1854–1914" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, VIII: 436–466 .
  2. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Benjamin Osgood Peirce", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews ..
  3. ↑ "Interesting Burials in Beverly Cemeteries" by Thomas F. Scully
  4. ↑ Eisele, Carolyn (2008). "Peirce, Benjamin Osgood, II.". In Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Holmes, Frederic Lawrence; Koertge, Noretta. Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684315591. OCLC 187313311. Retrieved 2018-10-04 – via Encyclopedia.com.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Joseph Lovering		 Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
1888-1914		 Succeeded by
Wallace Clement Sabine


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