a town and administrative region in central Scotland, on the River Forth; pop. 32,000 (est. 2009).

斯特林（苏格兰中部城镇和行政区，位于福思河畔，２００９年估计人口３２，０００）。

James (1692—1770), Scottish mathematician. His main work, Methodus Differentialis (1730), was concerned with summation and interpolation. A formula named after him, giving the approximate value of the factorial of large numbers, was actually first worked out by the French-born mathematician Abraham De Moivre (1667—1754).

斯特林，詹姆斯（１６９２—１７７０， 苏格兰数学家；他的主要著作《微分方式》［１７３０］ 　涉及求和法和插值法，以他名字命名的对大数字的阶乘积给出大约值的公式，其实是法国出生的数学家亚布拉罕· 德穆瓦夫尔［１６６７—１７５４］ 首先推演出来的）。

Sir James Fraser (1926—92), Scottish architect. Working at first in a brutalist style, he became known for his use of geometric shapes and coloured decoration in public buildings such as the Neuestaatsgalerie in Stuttgart (1977).

斯特林，詹姆斯·弗雷泽爵士（１９２６—１９９２，苏格兰建筑师；他最初采用的是野兽派风格，后因在公共建筑物应用几何图形和多彩装饰而闻名，例如斯图加特新州立美术馆［１９７７］ ）。

Robert (1790—1878), Scottish engineer and Presbyterian minister. In 1816 he was co-inventor (with his brother) of a type of external-combustion engine using heated air.

斯特林，罗伯特（１７９０—１８７８，苏格兰工程师和长老会的教长，１８１６年他与他的兄弟共同发明了一种利用热空气的外燃机）。