CALL ME SNAKE

I’m writing about Benjamin Peirce who was arguably the first mathematician of note at Harvard. I found that he wrote a history of Harvard from its founding through the Revolutionary War and ordered it through the library, thinking I might find something useful in it. What I found was that I had the wrong Benjamin Peirce. This guy was a librarian at the university; he entered college 16 years before his namesake, the mathematician. That’s never happened to me before. I have never gotten the wrong Benjamin Peirce before and, given the upset it has caused me, I hope I never get the wrong Benjamin Peirce again.