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Life of James Stirling, the Venetian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Charles Tweedie
Charles Tweedie*
Affiliation:
Carnegie Fellow
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James Stirling, who takes rank with Maclaurin and Napier among the great Scottish mathematicians, belonged to the Garden branch of the family of Stirling. The Stirling family is one of the oldest of the landed families of Scotland. They appear as proprietors of land in the twelfth century.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 10 , Issue 147 , July 1920 , pp. 119 - 128
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1920

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page note 119 * Pronounced Gardenne.

page note 119 † Scoticé for Allez en avant.

It reminds one forcibly of D’Alembert’s famous advice to a timid mathematician: “Allez en avant. La foi vous viendra.”

page note 122 * The Sheldon Theatre, Oxford.

page note 123 * Hermann.

page note 124 * The name is torn out.