Mathematician:James Stirling

Mathematician
Scottish mathematician best known for Stirling's Formula.

One of the first to study what is now known as the Gamma function.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: May 1692, Garden (near Stirling), Scotland
 * Died: 5 Dec 1770 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Theorems

 * Stirling's Formula
 * Stirling Numbers of the First Kind
 * Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind

Books and Papers

 * 1717: Lineae Tertii Ordinis Neutonianae
 * 1719: Methodus differentialis Newtoniana illustrata
 * 1730: Methodus Differentialis (in which Stirling's Formula is introduced)