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James Mills Peirce

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1834-1906 , mathematician and educator

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According to Wikipedia, James Mills Peirce was an American mathematician and educator. He taught at Harvard University for almost 50 years. Early life and family Peirce was born May 1, 1834, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the eldest son of Sarah Hunt Peirce and Benjamin Peirce , a professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard University. The family was considered part of the Boston Brahmin elite class. The surname is pronounced to rhyme with "". Benjamin Peirce's father, also named Benjamin, was librarian at Harvard. James had four younger siblings; one brother was philosopher, logician and professor Charles Sanders Peirce . Another brother was Herbert Henry Davis Peirce who was the First Secretary of the American Embassy in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the end of the 19th century.

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