Category:James Stirling (mathematician)

**James Stirling**
	Scottish mathematician (*1692 – †1770) Methodus differentialis, 1764 Tombe de James Stirling au cimetière de Greyfriars Kirkyard d'Édimbourg
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Name in native language	James Stirling;
Date of birth	May 1692; Stirling
Date of death	5 December 1770; Edinburgh
Place of burial	Greyfriars Kirkyard;
Pseudonym	The Venitian;
Country of citizenship	Great Britain;
Educated at	Balliol College (1710–1717); University of Oxford;
Occupation	mathematician; director (1735);
Employer	Republic of Venice (1717); University of Padua (1721); University of Glasgow (1722); Scots Mining Company (director, 1735);
Member of	Royal Society (1726–); Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1746–);
Field of work	combinatorics;
Father	Archibald Stirling, Lord Garden;
Mother	Mause Murray;
Notable work	Stirling's approximation; Stirling number;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society;
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