James Stirling
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Stirling
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Notable work
- Stirling number
- Field of work
- number theory
- Image
- Stirling - Methodus differentialis, sive Tractatus de summatione et interpolatione serierum infinitarum, 1764 - 739821.tif
- Political ideology
- Jacobitism
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- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- date of death
- 1770-12-05
- date of birth
- 1692-05-11
- name in native language
- James Stirling
- place of burial
- Greyfriars Kirkyard
- Commons category
- James Stirling (mathematician)
- different from
- James Stirling
- pseudonym
- The Venitian
- influenced by
- Isaac Newton
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