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Perhaps the most important mind the United States has ever produced, Peirce lived from 1839 to 1914, and he made significant contributions as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, engineer and inventor. He was also a psychologist, a student of medicine and, above all, a philosopher--often... Read Full Overview

A biography of Charles Sanders Peirce, born in September 1839, died five months before the guns of August 1914. This book gives an account of his significant contributions throughout his life as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, a historian... Read Full Overview

" Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books

" . . . a fine biography." --The New York Times Book Review

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