Mathematician:Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematician
American chemist who contributed to the fields of logic and mathematical philosophy, in particular the theory of the use of signs.

Laid some of the groundwork for the mathematical discipline of category theory.

Perceived in $1886$ that the functions of logic can be carried out by electronic circuitry.

Son of.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: September 10, 1839, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 * Died: April 19, 1914, Milford, Pennsylvania, USA

Theorems

 * Peirce's Law


 * Probably the inventor of the term aliorelative.

Books and Papers

 * 1878: Photometric Researches
 * 1886: Qualitative Logic
 * 1886: The Logic of Relatives: Qualitative and Quantitative
 * 1902: The Simplest Mathematics
 * 1902: The Simplest Mathematics

Collected Works

 * 1931: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 1: Principles of Philosophy (edited by and )


 * 1932: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 2: Elements of Logic (edited by and )


 * 1933: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 3: Exact Logic (edited by and )


 * 1934: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 4: The Simplest Mathematics (edited by and )


 * 1935: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 5: Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (edited by and )


 * 1936: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 6: Scientific Metaphysics (edited by and )


 * 1958: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 7: Science and Philosophy (edited by )


 * 1958: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 8: Reviews, Correspondence, and Bibliography (edited by )


 * 1976: The New Elements of Mathematics (edited by ):
 * Volume 1, Arithmetic
 * Volume 2, Algebra and Geometry
 * Volume 3.1, Mathematical Miscellanea
 * Volume 3.2, Mathematical Miscellanea
 * Volume 4, Mathematical Philosophy


 * 1981+ : Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition (Peirce Edition Project)

Also known as
Some sources erroneously present his surname as Pierce.