Mathematician:Charles Sanders Peirce

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 Benjamin Peirce.

Nationality
American

History

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

Theorems

 * Peirce's Law

Books and Papers

 * 1878: Photometric Researches
 * 1885: On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation (American Journal of Mathematics 7 (1885), 180–202)
 * 1886: Qualitative Logic
 * 1886: The Logic of Relatives: Qualitative and Quantitative