Category:James Stirling (mathematician)

**James Stirling**
	Scottish mathematician (*1692 – †1770) Methodus differentialis, 1764 Tombe de James Stirling au cimetière de Greyfriars Kirkyard d'Édimbourg
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Name in native language	James Stirling;
Date of birth	May 1692; Stirling
Date of death	5 December 1770; Edinburgh
Place of burial	Greyfriars Kirkyard;
Pseudonym	The Venitian;
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain;
Educated at	Balliol College (1710–1717); University of Oxford;
Occupation	mathematician; director (1735);
Employer	Republic of Venice (1717); University of Padua (1721); University of Glasgow (1722); Scots Mining Company (director, 1735);
Member of	Royal Society (1726–); Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1746–);
Field of work	combinatorics;
Father	Archibald Stirling, Lord Garden;
Mother	Mause Murray;
Notable work	Stirling's approximation; Stirling number;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society;
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	Q437734; ISNI: 0000000110599692; VIAF ID: 44447841; GND ID: 117260266; Library of Congress authority ID: n86867052; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 13475586v; IdRef ID: 067031668; SELIBR ID: 284086; National Library of Spain ID: XX1763989; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 216078490; NORAF ID: 90678878; NUKAT ID: n2005120590; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 26530; Libris-URI: 0xbfj15j23kn33h; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007273900605171; SBN author ID: TO0V427558; Open Library ID: OL1172605A
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Subcategories

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Grave of James Stirling (mathématician)‎ (2 F)

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Stirling's approximation‎ (19 F)

Media in category "James Stirling (mathematician)"

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Stirling - Methodus differentialis, sive Tractatus de summatione et interpolatione serierum infinitarum, 1764 - 739821.tif 2,712 × 3,614; 28.68 MB
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