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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: 192. Chapters: Charles Sanders Peirce, Emmy Noether, John von Neumann, Alan Turing, Stanislaw Ulam, Bertrand Russell, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Georg Cantor, Henri Poincare, Freeman Dyson, Hamlet Isakhanli, David Hilbert, Solomon Mikhlin, Per Enflo, Gottlob Frege, Ronald Fisher, Emil Artin, Grigori Perelman, Alfred Tarski, Alexander Grothendieck, Kurt Godel, Nikolay Bogolyubov, John R. Stallings, Shing-Tung Yau, Paul Erd s, John Forbes Nash, Jr., Tom Lehrer, Martin Gardner, Constantin Caratheodory, Ivar Ekeland, Donald Knuth, Grace Hopper, Benoit Mandelbrot, Norbert Wiener, Lewis Fry Richardson, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Satyendra Nath Bose, Eugene Wigner, Per Martin-Lof, Wilhelm Cauer. 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 branch of semiotics, of which he is a founder. As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits; the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers. Peirce's birthplace. Now Lesley...
