Peirce

Peirce

Peirce may mean:

*Benjamin Peirce, American mathematician, author of an article on rejection of data outliers Peirce's Criterion, and father of Charles Peirce
*Bill Peirce (born 1938), economist, Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, and 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate
*Charles Peirce (C.S. Peirce) (1839-1914), American logician, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, founder of pragmatism
*Cyrus Peirce (1790-1860), American educator, Unitarian minister, and the founding president of the first American public normal school
*Gareth Peirce (born c. 1940), British solicitor, known for taking on controversial and human rights cases
*Hayford Peirce (born 1942, Bangor, Maine), American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers
*Joseph Peirce (1748-1812), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
*Juliette Peirce (?-1934), second wife of the mathematician and philosopher Charles Peirce
*Henry A. Peirce (Henry Augustus Peirce) (1808-1885) of Massachusetts. U.S. Minister to Hawaiian Islands, 1869-77. Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs, March-July 1878, under King Kalakaua
*Kimberly Peirce (born 1967), American film director
*Leslie P. Peirce, American historian
*Lincoln Peirce, American cartoonist known for the comic strip "Big Nate"
*Robert B. F. Peirce (1843-1898) U.S. Representative from Indiana
*Victor Peirce (Victor George Peirce) (1958-2002), infamous Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria
*Waldo Peirce (1884-1970), American painter, born in Bangor, Maine
*Peirce College in Philadelphia
*Peirce (crater), small lunar crater in the western part of Mare Crisium
*Peirce School (also known as Old Peirce School), West Newton, Massachusetts

ee also

* Pierce


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  • PEIRCE (C. S.) — Logicien et philosophe américain, Peirce est un pionnier de la pensée. S’il laissa à d’autres l’exploration des domaines qu’il conquit, il leur avait tracé la voie et préparé la tâche. Ses travaux sur les fondements des mathématiques en font un… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Peirce — ist der Name von Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), US amerikanischer Astronom, Mathematiker und Lehrer; Vater von Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), US amerikanischer Mathematiker, Philosoph und Logiker, Eponym für Peirce… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Peirce —   [pəːs, pɪəs],    1) Benjamin, amerikanischer Mathematiker, Astronom und Geodät, * Salem (Massachusetts) 4. 4. 1809, ✝ Cambridge (Massachusetts) 6. 10. 1880, Vater von 2); ab 1833 Professor der Mathematik, ab 1842 auch der Astronomie an der …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Peirce — (spr. pīrs oder pörs), Benjamin, Mathematiker und Astronom, geb. 4. April 1809 zu Salem in Massachusetts, gest. 6. Okt. 1880 zu Cambridge in Massachusetts, wurde 1833 Professor der Mathematik und Naturphilosophie und 1842 Professor der Astronomie …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Peirce — Peirce, Charles Sanders …   Philosophy dictionary

  • Peirce — Peirce, Charles S …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Peirce — (Charles Sanders) (1839 1914) philosophe et logicien américain; promoteur du pragmatisme et de la sémiologie …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Peirce — Peirce, Charles San|ders (1838 1914) a US philosopher, who said that an idea on its own does not have any value, and that there is only value in the results produced by the idea. His most important writings were put together after his death in a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Peirce — Peirce, Charles Sanders …   Dictionary of sociology

  • Peirce — surname, attested from late 12c., from O.Fr. Piers, nom. of proper name Pierre …   Etymology dictionary

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