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.

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

Collected Works

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


 * 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 see

 * : $\S 1.5$: The Importance of Variables in Mathematics (footnote)
 * : Introduction