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The Elements of Logarithms; With an Explanation of the Three and Four Place Tables of logarithmic and trigonometric functions
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Analytic Text-Book of Analytic Geometry: On the Basis (Classic Reprint)
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James Mills Peirce was an American educator and mathematician.
Background
James Mills Peirce was born on May 1, 1834 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. He was the eldest son of Benjamin Peirce and Sarah Hunt (Mills) Peirce, brother of Charles S. Peirce, and grandson of Harvard's librarian and historian Benjamin Peirce.
Education
James Mills Peirce received the degree of B. A. from Harvard in 1853. After a year in the law school, he was a tutor in mathematics in Harvard College, 1854 - 1858. In 1857, while still a tutor, Peirce entered the Divinity School where he graduated in 1859.
Career
From 1859 to 1861 James Mills Peirce preached in Unitarian churches in New Bedford, Massachussets, and in Charleston, South Carolina, but he then gave up the ministry and returned as an assistant professor of mathematics to Harvard where he remained in the service of the university until his death. In 1869 he became university professor of mathematics and in 1885 the Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. He served as secretary of the Academic Council from its establishment in 1872 until 1889, as dean of the graduate school from its foundation in 1890 until 1895, and as dean of the faculty of arts and sciences from 1895 until 1898. He was one of the pioneers in introducing and expanding the elective system in the College, and during the long administration of his classmate President Eliot he worked shoulder to shoulder with him in fostering graduate study in the university. In mathematics his chief fields of interest were quaternions, linear associative algebra, and higher plane curves, and for many years he gave popular courses in these subjects.
Peirce's lectures were exceptionally polished and clear. He was deeply interested in his students, "patient and helpful, understanding and sympathizing with their tastes, their aspirations, and their struggles, as if he were still one of them. " His slight published output included: A Text Book of Analytic Geometry on the Basis of Professor Peirce's Treatise (Cambridge, 1857), on which Charles William Eliot was an active collaborator; Introduction to Analytic Geometry (Cambridge, 1869); Three and Four Place Tables of Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions (Boston, 1871); an article on "Quaternions, " in Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia (New York, vol. III, 1877); a memoir in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (October 1904); articles in the Monthly Religious Magazine (1856), Harvard University Library Bulletin (1878 - 1879), Harvard Register (1881), and various reports to the President as an administrative officer. He edited with notes his father's Lowell Lectures under the title: Ideality in the Physical Sciences (Boston, 1881).
As in the case of his father, James Mills Peirce died in the seventy-second year of his life and in the fiftieth of his service to the university on March 21, 1906.
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Personality
James Mills Peirce was careful in dress, dignified in bearing, scrupulously polite to everyone, courteous and kindly, had friendly greeting, an earnest speech, at once measured and impetuous, his quick indignation at any suggestion of injustice, and his scorn of everything narrow or crooked or mean.
Interests
James Mills Peirce had a varied interests and gifts. Widely read in literature, he was in particular a lifelong student of the plays of Shakespeare and an enthusiastic admirer of the work of Shelley. Pierce was fond of travel, a lover of the best in art, and a devotee of music, but the stage and whist were his passions. James Peirce saw most of the best actors and plays for half a century, and he himself was no ordinary dramatic reader.