Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (/pɜːrs/[1][2] purss; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. He is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was known for his works in logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics. Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Peirce died on April 19, 1914 in Milford, Pennsylvania at the age of 74.
Charles Sanders Peirce Media
Peirce's birthplace. Now part of Lesley University's Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) in 1859, the year of his graduation from Harvard.
"The World on a Quincuncial Projection", 1879. Peirce’s projection of a sphere onto a square keeps angles true except at four isolated points on the equator, and has less scale variation than the Mercator projection. It can be tessellated; that is, multiple copies can be joined together continuously edge-to-edge.
Juliette and Charles by a well at their home Arisbe in 1907
"Arisbe", the Charles S. Peirce house near Milford, Pennsylvania, USA. It houses the Research and Resource Planning Division of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Charles and Juliette Peirce's grave
Existential graphs: Alpha graphs
References
- ↑ "Peirce", in the case of C. S. Peirce, always rhymes with the English-language word "terse" and so, in most dialects, is pronounced exactly like the English-language word "
purse (info • help)".
- ↑ Note on the Pronunciation of 'Peirce'. 1. December 1994. http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/news/1_3/13_4x.htm. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
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