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| Dec 18, 2009 at 15:20 | comment | added | Jon Awbrey | I linked to the MacTutor Bio that should provide basic info on the man. I haven't looked deeply enough into the history, but my first guess would be that Peirce Decomposition is due to Benjamin, his father, who is credited with coining the terms idempotent, nilpotent, and others of that ilk. But C. did edit and supply addenda to some of B.'s papers. There's a link to B. Peirce's bio and a page from his Linear Associative Algebra here. | |
| Nov 26, 2009 at 6:28 | comment | added | alekzander | Might you want to say what he has contributed, for those of us who might not recognize the name? (Is he the same as in the Peirce Decomposition for a ring in terms of its idempotents?) | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 18:58 | history | answered | Jon Awbrey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |