At 9:30 AM -0700 7/28/08, Rich Cooper wrote:
John,
Re Pierce, you wrote:
(The
only book he published during his lifetime was _Photometric
Researches_, which was an improvement on the methods for determining
the distance to stars: (a) classify them according to their light
spectra and (b) within each class, estimate their relative distances
in terms of their relative brightness.)
?
But
his major employment was at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey for 30
years. During that time, he taught for 5 years as a part-time
professor at Johns Hopkins U (from 1880 to 1885).
That
was the time when he developed and published the algebraic notation
for first-order logic, and he gave full credit to some of his students
for critical ideas.
If he only published the one book, how do people today
know about his work in semiotics? There must be material
published somewhere, perhaps by biographers. Do you have any
citations that describe his material at a tutorial
level?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce
http://www.peirce.org/
First two items retrieved by Googling "Charles Saunders
Peirce". Its even quicker than email.
Pat Hayes
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