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Benjamin Peirce

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American mathematician (1809–1880)

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  • Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry with Their Applications to Navigation, Surveying, Heights and Distances and Spherical Astr
  • Elementary Treatise on Curves, Functions, and Forces - Analytic Geometry and the Differential Calculus - Vol 1
  • Elementary Treatise on Plane & Spherical Trigonometry
  • Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spheric
  • Physical and Celestial Mechanics Developed in 4 Systems of Analytic Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, Potential Physics, and Analytic Morphology. Auch Unt. D. Titel a System of Analytic Mechanics

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  • What is man? … What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
  • Ideality is preëminently the foundation of Mathematics.
  • Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
  • Descend from the infinite to the infinitesimal. Long before ... observation had begun to penetrate the veil under which Nature has hidden her mysteries, the restless mind sought some principle of power strong enough and of sufficient variety to collect and bind together all parts of a world. This seemed to be found, where one might least expect it, in abstract numbers. Everywhere the exactest numerical proportion was seen to constitute the spiritual element of the highest beauty.
  • The very spirits of the winds, when they were sent to carry the grateful harvest to the thirsting fields of Calabria, did not forget the geometry which they had studied in the caverns of Æolus and of which the geologist is daily discovering the diagrams.
  • There is proof enough furnished by every science, but by none more than geometry, that the world to which we have been allotted is peculiarly adapted to our minds, and admirably fitted to promote our intellectual progress. There can be no reasonable doubt that it was part of the Creator's plan. How easily might the whole order have been transposed! How readily might we have been assigned to some complicated system which our feeble and finite powers could not have unravelled!

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Benjamin Peirce
date of birth
1809-04-04
date of death
1880-10-06
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name in native language
Benjamin Peirce Jr.
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