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Stirling, James

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Stirling, James (1692-1770)

Scottish mathematician and engineer, best known for his formula approximating n! and for the so-called Stirling numbers that occur in many combinatorial problems.

Stirling was born near Stirling in Scotland and travelled to Oxford in 1710 to begin studying there. In 1735 he returned to Scotland to live permanently (having previously lived for ten years in London, England, and also in Vienna, Austria, and Padua, Italy) and take up a post as manager of a mining company.



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