James Stirling

James Stirling (April 22, 1692 - 1770) was an important Scottish mathematician.

See also: Stirling numbers. Stirling's formula

External link

• On Stirling at University of St Andrews' pages: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Stirling.html

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Sir James Stirling was the governor of Western Australia in the 1830s.