James Stirling (mathematician)

James Stirling
Born11 May[1] O.S. 1692[2][3]
Garden, Stirlingshire
Died5 December 1770 (aged 78)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Resting placeGreyfriars Kirkyard
NationalityScottish
Known for
Scientific career
Fields

James Stirling (11 May[4] O.S. 1692,[5][6] Garden, Stirlingshire – 5 December 1770, Edinburgh) was a Scottish mathematician. He was nicknamed "The Venetian".

The Stirling numbers, Stirling permutations, and Stirling's approximation are named after him. He also proved the correctness of Isaac Newton's classification of cubic plane curves.[7]

  1. ^ Monument to the Stirlings of Garden, Dunblane Cathedral
  2. ^ Algebraic number theory by Richard A. Mollin
  3. ^ Bibmath.net Archived 10 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Monument to the Stirlings of Garden, Dunblane Cathedral
  5. ^ Algebraic number theory by Richard A. Mollin
  6. ^ Bibmath.net Archived 10 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Conics and Cubics, Richard Bix, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag UTM, 2006.