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Benjamin Peirce

1809 - 1880

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Benjamin Peirce (; April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Peirce has received more than 163,052 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Benjamin Peirce is the 602nd most popular mathematician (down from 564th in 2019), the 5,114th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,926th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Benjamin Peirce ranks 602 out of 1,004. Before him are Haskell Curry, Arend Heyting, Wilhelm Jordan, Diederik Korteweg, Louis J. Mordell, and Beppo Levi. After him are Michael Freedman, Harish-Chandra, Pietro Mengoli, Julius Petersen, Luigi Bianchi, and Ilia Vekua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Benjamin Peirce ranks 53. Before him are Cyrus McCormick, Oswald Heer, Louis Charles Delescluze, Rutherford Alcock, Manuel Montt, and Johann Heinrich Blasius. After him are Theodor Benfey, James David Forbes, Santiago Derqui, Petrus Borel, Aleksey Koltsov, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter. Among people deceased in 1880, Benjamin Peirce ranks 43. Before him are Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Nikolay Zinin, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and Manuel Montt. After him are Edmond Albius, Izmail Sreznevsky, Nils Johan Andersson, Daniel Bashiel Warner, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, and Heinrich von Gagern.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Peirce ranks 5,114 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Chambers (1935), Ali Larter (1976), Billy Burke (1966), Kevin Pollak (1957), Gregg Henry (1952), and Dann Florek (1950). After him are Roscoe Tanner (1951), Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911), Michael Freedman (1951), Megan Thee Stallion (1995), Jake Paul (1997), and Selma Blair (1972).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Benjamin Peirce ranks 36. Before him are Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Julia Robinson (1919), John Tate (1925), Ronald Graham (1935), Haskell Curry (1900), and Louis J. Mordell (1888). After him are Michael Freedman (1951), Richard Montague (1930), Robert Axelrod (1943), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Harold Hotelling (1895), and Oswald Veblen (1880).

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