Filho de Benjamin Peirce (1778–1881), que trabalhou na biblioteca de Harvard, e Lydia Ropes Nichols Peirce (1781–1868).[1]
Após graduar-se em Harvard, lá permaneceu como tutor (1829), sendo indicado professor de matemática em 1831. A astronomia entrou em sua lista de interesses em 1842, e ele permaneceu como professor em Harvard até morrer. Foi diretor do National Geodetic Survey, de 1867 a 1874.
Pesquisa
Benjamin Peirce é reconhecido frequentemente como o primeiro estadunidense a ter suas pesquisas universalmente reconhecidas.[2]
Obras
An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry, Boston: James Munroe and Company. GoogleEprints of successive editions 1837–1873.
An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Boston: James Munroe and Company. GoogleEprints of successive editions 1840–1862.
Linear Associative Algebra, lithograph by Peirce 1872. New edition with corrections, notes, and an added 1875 paper by Peirce, plus notes by his son Charles Sanders Peirce, published in the American Journal of Mathematics v. 4, 1881, Johns Hopkins University, pp. 221–226, GoogleEprint and as an extract, D. Van Nostrand, 1882, GoogleEprint.
Peirce, Benjamin (1872, 1881), Linear Associative Algebra. Lithograph edition by Peirce 1872. New edition with corrections, notes, and an added 1875 paper by Peirce, plus notes by his son Charles Sanders Peirce, published in the American Journal of Mathematics v. 4, n. 1, 1881, Johns Hopkins University, pp. 221–226, GoogleEprint, doi:10.2307/2369153JSTOR and as an extract, D. Van Nostrand, 1882, GoogleEprint, Internet ArchiveEprint.
Peirce, Benjamin (1878), "On Peirce's Criterion", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 13 (whole series), v. 5 (new series), for May 1877 – May 1878, Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, pp. 348–351. GoogleEprint. JSTORabstract.
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1870/1871/1873) "Appendix No. 21. On the Theory of Errors of Observation", Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1870, pp. 200–224. Coast Survey Report submitted February 18, 1871, published 1873 by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Reports 1837–1965. NOAA PDF Eprint (link goes to 1870 Report's p. 200, PDF's p. 215). Reprinted in pp. 140–160 of Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition: Volume 3, 1872–1878, Christian J. W. Kloesel et al., eds., Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253372011.
Stigler, Stephen M. (1980). «Mathematical Statistics in the Early States». In: Stephen M. Stigler. American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II. I. New York: Arno Press
Stigler, Stephen M. (1989). «Mathematical Statistics in the Early States». In: Peter Duren. A Century of Mathematics in America. III. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. pp. 537–564