References for Benjamin Peirce

Version for printing
  1. C Eisele, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. R C Archibald, Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880 : Biographical Sketch and Bibliography (Oberlin, Ohio, 1925).
  2. I Bernard Cohen (ed.), Benjamin Peirce : 'Father of Pure Mathematics' in America (Arno Press, New York, 1980).
  3. M King (ed.), Benjamin Peirce : A memorial collection (Rand, Avery, Cambridge, Mass., 1881) .
  4. V F Lenzen, Benjamin Peirce and the U.S. Coast Survey (San Francisco, 1968).

Articles:

  1. A Ackerberg, Benjamin Peirce, American National Biography 17 (Oxford, 1999), 250-251.
  2. R C Archibald, Benjamin Peirce's linear associative algebra and C S Peirce, Amer. Math. Monthly 34 (1927), 525-527.
  3. I Grattan-Guinness, Benjamin Peirce's Linear associative algebra (1870): new light on its preparation and 'publication', Ann. of Sci. 54 (6) (1997), 597-606.
  4. I Grattan-Guinness and A Walsh, Benjamin Peirce, in Edward N Zalta (ed.),The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2001 Edition).
  5. E Hogan, 'A proper spirit is abroad' : Peirce, Sylvester, Ward, and American mathematics, Historia mathematica 18 (1991), 158-172.
  6. Many articles in Amer. Math. Monthly 32 (1925).
  7. F P Matz, Biography. Benjamin Peirce, Amer. Math. Monthly 2 (1895), 173-179.
  8. P Meier and S Zabell, Benjamin Peirce and the Howland will, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 75 (371) (1980), 497-506.
  9. S Newcomb, Note on Benjamin Peirce, Nation 18 (1874), 157.
  10. L Novy, Benjamin Peirce's concept of linear algebra, Acta Historiae Rerum Naturalium necnon Technicarum (Cesk. Akad. Ved, Prague, 1974), 211-231.
  11. B Peirce, Address of Professor Benjamin Peirce, President of the American Association for the Year 1853, The American Association (1853).
  12. S R Peterson, Benjamin Peirce : mathematician and philosopher, J. Hist. Ideas 16 (1955), 89-112.
  13. H M Pycior, Benjamin Peirce's 'Linear associative algebra', Isis 70 (254) (1979), 537-551.
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