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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 188. Chapters: Charles Sanders Peirce, John von Neumann, Ted Kaczynski, Stanislaw Ulam, Hilary Putnam, William A. Dembski, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Herbert Scarf, Freeman Dyson, Per Enflo, Emil Artin, Hendrik Wade Bode, Claude Shannon, Kurt Godel, John R. Stallings, Shing-Tung Yau, John Forbes Nash, Jr., Tom Lehrer, Ron Larson, Martin Gardner, Donald Knuth, Grace Hopper, Hugh Everett III, Ming-Jun Lai, Norbert Wiener, Sergey Degayev, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Wolfgang Smith, Danica McKellar, William James Sidis, Orson Pratt, Charles B. Morrey, Jr., James W. Cannon, Simon Newcomb, Martin David Kruskal, Suresh P. Sethi, Edward Burger, James Harris Simons, Richard Lewontin, Carl Hewitt, George Dantzig, Shiing-Shen Chern, Karen Vogtmann, Israel Gelfand, Terence Tao, George R. Price, Peter Orno, Christine Ladd-Franklin, David Mumford, Robert V. Hogg, Nicolas Rashevsky, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., Joseph Sgro, Mladen Bestvina, Leonard Eugene Dickson. Excerpt: Charles Sanders Peirce ( like "purse"; September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism." He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician." An innovator in mathematics, statistics, philosophy, research methodology, and various sciences, Peirce considered himself, first and foremost, a logician. He made major contributions to logic, but logic for him encompassed much of that which is now called epistemology and philosophy of science. He saw logic as the formal...
