ProofWiki:Mathematicians/James Stirling

Scottish mathematician best known for Stirling's Formula.

One of the first to study what is now known as the Gamma function.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: May 1692, Garden (near Stirling), Scotland
• Died: 5 Dec 1770 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Theorems

• Stirling's Formula
• Stirling Numbers of the First Kind
• Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind

Books and Papers

• 1717: Lineae Tertii Ordinis Neutonianae
• 1719: Methodus differentialis Newtoniana illustrata
• 1730: Methodus Differentialis (in which Stirling's Formula is introduced)

Also See

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "James Stirling": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive