Benjamin Osgood Peirce
1854 - 1914
Benjamin Osgood Pierce was an American mathematician. He was the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University from 1888 to 1914.
Hall, Edwin H. (1919), "Biographical Memoir of Benjamin Osgood Peirce 1854–1914,"Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences VIII: 436–466. http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/bpeirce.pdf (accessed 04/21/2015)