James Joseph Sylvester
Also known as James Sylvester, Sylvester
English mathematician (1814-1897)
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- Born
- 1814
- Died
- 1897
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- 10
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- Sir John De Courcy and Schiller's Ideale
- Fliegende blätter
- Unpublished letters of James Joseph Sylvester and other new information concerning his life and work
- Lectures containing an exposition of the fundamental principles of the new theory of reciprocants
- Testimonials obtained by Professor Sylvester
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James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was a professor at Oxford University.
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