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Charles Sanders Peirce

1839 - 1914

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Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years, Peirce meanwhile made major contributions to logic, such as theories of relations and quantification. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Sanders Peirce is the 57th most popular mathematician (down from 43rd in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from United States (down from 228th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Mathematician.

Charles Sanders Peirce is most famous for his work in semiotics, which is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. He is also well known for his work in logic, mathematics, and philosophy.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Charles Sanders Peirce ranks 57 out of 1,004. Before him are Abraham de Moivre, Archytas, August Ferdinand Möbius, Josef Stefan, Sophie Germain, and Friedrich Bessel. After him are Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Marin Mersenne, Émilie du Châtelet, and Ludolph van Ceulen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Charles Sanders Peirce ranks 7. Before him are Paul Cézanne, John D. Rockefeller, Sully Prudhomme, Modest Mussorgsky, Jamsetji Tata, and Alfred Sisley. After him are Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Nikolay Przhevalsky, and Josephine Cochrane. Among people deceased in 1914, Charles Sanders Peirce ranks 7. Before him are Pope Pius X, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Bertha von Suttner, Charles Albert Gobat, Frédéric Mistral, and Paul Heyse. After him are Carol I of Romania, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, George Westinghouse, Georg Trakl, and Jean Jaurès.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Sanders Peirce ranks 339 out of 20,380. Before him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Christopher Lloyd (1938), Andrew Johnson (1808), George S. Patton (1885), Robert Forster (1941), and Herman Melville (1819). After him are Mel Gibson (1956), Henry Clay (1777), John Cage (1912), Tom Petty (1950), Zachary Taylor (1784), and John Howard Northrop (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Charles Sanders Peirce ranks 2. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928). After him are Norbert Wiener (1894), Katherine Johnson (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Jim Simons (1938), Claude Shannon (1916), Paul Cohen (1934), John Tate (1925), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), and Alonzo Church (1903).

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