James Stirling (mathematician)
James Stirling (May 1692 Garden, Stirlingshire – 5 December 1770 Edinburgh) was a Scottish mathematician. The Stirling numbers and Stirling's approximation are named after him. He also proved the correctness of Isaac Newton's classification of cubics.
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