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<p><b>Benjamin Peirce</b> (* <a href="4._April" title="4. April">4. April</a> <a href="1809" title="1809">1809</a> in <a href="Salem_(Massachusetts)" title="Salem (Massachusetts)">Salem</a>, <a href="Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>; † <a href="6._Oktober" title="6. Oktober">6. Oktober</a> <a href="1880" title="1880">1880</a> in <a href="Cambridge_(Massachusetts)" title="Cambridge (Massachusetts)">Cambridge</a>, Massachusetts), Vater des Philosophen <a href="Charles_S._Peirce" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles S. Peirce">Charles S. Peirce</a> und des Mathematikers <a href="Benjamin_Osgood_Peirce" title="Benjamin Osgood Peirce">Benjamin Osgood Peirce</a>, war ein amerikanischer <a href="Lehrer" title="Lehrer">Lehrer</a>, <a href="Mathematiker" title="Mathematiker">Mathematiker</a> und <a href="Astronom" title="Astronom">Astronom</a>, der die <a href="Bahnst%C3%B6rung" title="Bahnstörung">Bahnstörungen</a> der <a href="Planet" title="Planet">Planeten</a> <a href="Uranus_(Planet)" title="Uranus (Planet)">Uranus</a> und <a href="Neptun_(Planet)" title="Neptun (Planet)">Neptun</a> berechnete.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Peirce wurde 1829 an der <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> promoviert; Gutachter seiner Dissertation war <a href="Nathaniel_Bowditch" title="Nathaniel Bowditch">Nathaniel Bowditch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Im Jahr 1833 wurde er <a href="Professor" title="Professor">Professor</a> für <a href="Mathematik" title="Mathematik">Mathematik</a> und Naturphilosophie an der Harvard-Universität. 1834 wurde er in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> gewählt. Im Jahre 1842 wurde er zusätzlich zu seinen bisherigen Professuren Professor für <a href="Astronomie" title="Astronomie">Astronomie</a>; beide Funktionen behielt er bis zum Lebensende. 1867 wurde Peirce zudem Leiter der Küstenvermessung der Vereinigten Staaten.
</p><p>Peirce war hauptsächlich für die Einführung der Mathematik in amerikanischen Forschungseinrichtungen verantwortlich. So war er der erste, der in den Vereinigten Staaten Mathematikkurse auf Doktorandenniveau anbot. Er wurde bekannt durch seine Beiträge zur analytischen Mechanik und <a href="Lineare_Algebra" title="Lineare Algebra">linearen Algebra</a>. Darüber hinaus spielte er durch seine frühen Arbeiten in der Astronomie eine Rolle bei der Entdeckung des Neptun.
</p><p>Der Mondkrater <a href="Peirce_(Mondkrater)" title="Peirce (Mondkrater)">Peirce</a> sowie der <a href="Asteroid" title="Asteroid">Asteroid</a> <a href="(29463)_Benjaminpeirce" title="(29463) Benjaminpeirce">(29463) Benjaminpeirce</a> sind nach ihm benannt.
</p><p>1852 war er <a href="Liste_der_Pr%C3%A4sidenten_der_American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="Liste der Präsidenten der American Association for the Advancement of Science">Präsident</a> der <a href="American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>. Ab 1852 war er auswärtiges Mitglied (<i>Foreign Member</i>) der <a href="Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>, 1863 gehörte er zu den Gründungsmitgliedern der <a href="National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a>, 1867 wurde er zum korrespondierenden Mitglied der Göttinger <a href="Akademie_der_Wissenschaften_zu_G%C3%B6ttingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen">Akademie der Wissenschaften</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sowie zum Ehrenmitglied (<i>Honorary Fellow</i>) der <a href="Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gewählt.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften">Schriften</h2></div>
<ul><li>An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry, Boston 1837, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anelementarytre11peirgoog">Archive</a></li>
<li>Linear associative algebra, Washington City 1870, New York: Van Nostrand 1882, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/linearassociati00peirgoog">Archive</a></li>
<li>An Elementary Treatise on Algebra: To which are Added Exponential Equations and Logarithms, Boston: J. Munroe 1843, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anelementarytre26peirgoog">Archive</a></li>
<li>An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. With Their Applications to Navigation, Surveying, Heights and Distances and Spherical Astronomy, Boston: Munroe 1852, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anelementarytre07peirgoog">Archive</a></li>
<li>A system of analytic mechanics, Boston: Little Brown and Company 1855, New York: Van Nostrand 1872, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/asystemanalytic01peirgoog">Archive</a></li>
<li>An Elementary Treatise on Curves, Functions, and Forces, 2 Bände, Boston 1846, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anelementarytre33peirgoog">Band 2, Archive</a></li>
<li>The Saturnian System, Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1866</li>
<li>Report upon the determination of the longitude of America and Europe from the solar eclipse of July 28, 1851, Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1862</li>
<li>Tables of the Moon: Constructed for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanach, Washington, Bureau of Navigation 1865</li></ul>
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<ul><li>John J. O’Connor, <a href="Edmund_Robertson" title="Edmund Robertson">Edmund F. Robertson</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Peirce_Benjamin/"><i>Benjamin Peirce.</i></a> In: <span lang="en"><i><a href="MacTutor_History_of_Mathematics_archive" title="MacTutor History of Mathematics archive">MacTutor History of Mathematics archive</a></i></span> (englisch).</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/">Eintrag</a> in Edward N. Zalta (Hrsg.): <i><a href="Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy" title="Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a></i>.<span style="display:none">Vorlage:SEP/Wartung/Parameter 1 und weder Parameter 2 noch Parameter 3</span></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-lat&arxiv_sel=hep-ph&arxiv_sel=hep-th&arxiv_sel=math&arxiv_sel=math-ph&arxiv_sel=nlin&arxiv_sel=nucl-ex&arxiv_sel=nucl-th&arxiv_sel=physics&arxiv_sel=quant-ph&arxiv_sel=q-bio&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&adsobj_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Peirce%2C+B.&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=200&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1">Veröffentlichungen von B. Peirce</a> im <a href="Astrophysics_Data_System" title="Astrophysics Data System">Astrophysics Data System</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-lat&arxiv_sel=hep-ph&arxiv_sel=hep-th&arxiv_sel=math&arxiv_sel=math-ph&arxiv_sel=nlin&arxiv_sel=nucl-ex&arxiv_sel=nucl-th&arxiv_sel=physics&arxiv_sel=quant-ph&arxiv_sel=q-bio&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&adsobj_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=&object=&start_mon=02&start_year=1881&end_mon=10&end_year=1895&ttl_logic=OR&title=Peirce&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=200&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1">Nachrufe auf B. Peirce</a> im <a href="Astrophysics_Data_System" title="Astrophysics Data System">Astrophysics Data System</a></li>
<li>Eintrag zu <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA5733&pos=1"><i>Peirce, Benjamin (1809 - 1880)</i></a> im Archiv der <i><a href="Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a></i>, London<span class="editoronly" style="display:none;"></span></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zbmath.org/authors/peirce.benjamin">Benjamin Peirce</a> in der Datenbank <a href="ZbMATH" title="ZbMATH">zbMATH</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=80886">Benjamin Peirce</a> im <a href="Mathematics_Genealogy_Project" title="Mathematics Genealogy Project">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a> (englisch) <span style="display:none">Vorlage:MathGenealogyProject/Wartung/id verwendet</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Holger Krahnke: <i>Die Mitglieder der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1751–2001</i> (= <i>Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse.</i> Folge 3, Bd. 246 = <i>Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse.</i> Folge 3, Bd. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1, S. 187.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RSE-Fellows-BiographicalIndex-2.pdf"><i>Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002, Part Two.</i></a> (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 28. März 2020</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ABenjamin+Peirce&rft.title=Fellows+Directory.+Biographical+Index%3A+Former+RSE+Fellows+1783%E2%80%932002%2C+Part+Two&rft.description=Fellows+Directory.+Biographical+Index%3A+Former+RSE+Fellows+1783%E2%80%932002%2C+Part+Two&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Frse.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F07%2FRSE-Fellows-BiographicalIndex-2.pdf&rft.publisher=Royal+Society+of+Edinburgh"> </span></span>
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