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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Benjamin Peirce
Born: April 4, 1809
Died: October 6, 1880 (aged 71)
Bio: Benjamin Peirce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics.
Known for:
- Linear Associative Alegebra (1870)
- Mathematical and Physical Papers, 1903-1913