James Stirling was a Scottish mathematician, born in May 1692 on the family estate at Garden, near the town of Stirling, who died in Edinburgh on 5 December 1770. His family strongly supported the Jacobite cause, which shaped his life. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 18 January 1711 as a Snell Exhibitioner. His most important work was the Methodus Differentialis of 1730, a treatise on infinite series, summation, interpolation and quadrature. After the first Jacobite rebellion of 1715 he lost his Oxford scholarships because he would not take the required oath.
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He should have sworn an oath when matriculating but his Jacobite sympathies would not let him do this and he was excused
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They are named after James Stirling.
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