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Benjamin Peirce

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Benjamin Peirce deserves recognition, not only as a founding father of American mathematics, but also as a founding father of modern abstract algebra.
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H. M. Pycior, in "Benjamin Peirce's 'Linear Associative Algebra'" in Isis Vol. 70, 254 (1979), p. 537-551

 
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