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  1. The Collected Mathematical Papers Of James Joseph Sylvester V4: 1882-1897 (1904) by James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-05-23
  2. The Collected Mathematical Papers Of James Joseph Sylvester V2: 1854-1873 by James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-09-10
  3. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester (Volume 1) by James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-01-14
  4. The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 32 by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-04-09
  5. The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 36 by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-04-08
  6. Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 27 by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-04-20
  7. The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 21 by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-04-01
  8. Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 6 by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-04-08
  9. The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 24 by James Joseph Sylvester, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, 2010-05-12
  10. The laws of verse; or, Principles of versification exemplified in metrical translations, together with an annotated reprint of the inaugural presidential ... section of the British Association at Exeter by James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-08-29
  11. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester by Anonymous, 2010-02-23
  12. James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters by Karen Hunger Parshall, 1998-12-10
  13. James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World by Karen Hunger Parshall, 2006-05-01
  14. The Collected Mathematical Papers Of James Joseph Sylvester V2: 1854-1873 by James Joseph Sylvester, 2010-09-10

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James Joseph Sylvester. James Joseph Sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution in Liverpool.
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James Joseph Sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution in Liverpool. In 1833 he became a student at St John's College, Cambridge. Two other famous mathematicians took the tripos examination in the same year as Sylvester, namely Duncan Gregory and George Green . Sylvester came second, Green who was 20 years older than the other two came fourth with Duncan Gregory fifth. (The mathematician who came first did little work of importance after graduating: this was not at uncommon in the 'speed test' which the tripos was at that time.) At this time it was necessary for a student to sign a religious oath to the Church of England before graduating and Sylvester, being Jewish, refused to take the oath necessary so could not graduate. For the same reason he was not eligible for a Smith's prize nor for a Fellowship. From 1838 Sylvester taught physics for three years at the University of London, one of the few places which did not bar him because of his religion. His former teacher

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James Joseph Sylvester James Joseph Sylvester September 14 March 15 ) was an English mathematician and lawyer Sylvester was born in London and studied at St John's College Cambridge from but because he was Jewish he did not graduate. However, he took Cambridge's famous mathematics exam and was ranked second. In he came to United States for a short period to become a professor at the University of Virginia but he soon returned to England In Sylvester again crossed the Atlantic ocean for a new job at Johns Hopkins University . In he founded the American Journal of Mathematics , the first mathematical journal in the United States. It is said that Sylvester invented one of the highest numbers of mathematical terms such as the totient function n ). His scientific work is collected in a four volume book. In the Royal Society of London awarded Sylvester the Copley Medal , their highest award for scientific achievement. Sylvester House, one of the undergraduate dormitories at Johns Hopkins, is named in his honor. edit
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    James Sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution in Liverpool. In 1833, he became a student at St. John's College, Cambridge. At this time it was necessary for a student to sign a religious oath to the Church of England before graduating. Sylvester, being Jewish, refused to take the oath, so could not graduate. From 1838 Sylvester taught physics for 3 years at the University of London, one of the few places which did not bar him because of his religion. His former teacher De Morgan was one of his colleagues. At the age of 27 he was appointed to a chair in the University of Virginia but he resigned after a few months. A student who had been reading a newspaper in one of Sylvester's lectures insulted him and Sylvester struck him with a sword stick. The student collapsed in shock and Sylvester thought that he had killed him. He fled to New York boarding the first available ship back to England. On his return Sylvester worked as an actuary, lawyer, and math tutor. His pupils included Florence Nightingale. By good fortune, Cayley was also a lawyer. The two of them discussed mathematics as they walked around the courts, and they became life long friends. Sylvester tried hard to return to being a professional mathematician, and eventually he became professor of mathematics at Woolwich. Sylvester did important work on matrix theory. In 1851 he discovered the discriminant of a cubic equation and first used the name "discriminant" for such expressions of quadratic equations and those of higher order. He used matrix theory to study higher dimensional geometry. He also contributed to the creation of the theory of elementary divisors of lambda matrices.

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    James Joseph Sylvester. Sylvester was a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the notable mathematicians of the nineteenth century.
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    Sylvester was a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the notable mathematicians of the nineteenth century. His writing style was eloquent as evidenced by the following quote from pages 77-78 of The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, volume III,
    pages 72-87, Address on Commemoration Day at Johns Hopkins University 22 February, 1877. I remember, too, how, in like manner, when a very young professor, fresh from the University of Cambridge, in the act of teaching a private pupil the simpler parts of Algebra, I discovered the principle now generally adopted into the higher text books, which goes by the name of the "Dialytic Method of Elimination." So much for the reaction of the student on the teacher. May the time never come when the two offices of teaching and researching shall be sundered in this University! So long as man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment. Back to my home page
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    James Joseph Sylvester
    James Joseph Sylvester September 14 March 15 ) was an English mathematician and lawyer Sylvester was born in London and studied at St John's College Cambridge from but because he was Jewish he did not graduate. In he came to United States for a short period to become a professor at the University of Virginia but he soon returned to England In Sylvester again crossed the Atlantic ocean for a new job at Johns Hopkins University . In he founded the American Journal of Mathematics , the first mathematical journal in the United States. It is said that Sylvester invented one of the highest numbers of mathematical terms such as the totient function n ). His scientific work is collected in a four volume book. In the Royal Society of London awarded Sylvester the Copley Medal , their highest award for scientific achievement. Sylvester House, one of the undergraduate dormitories at Johns Hopkins, is named in his honor.
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    James Joseph Sylvester. Born 3 Sept 1814 in London, England Died 15 March 1897 in London, England. James Joseph Sylvester did important work on matrix theory.
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    (Alphabetically) Next Welcome page James Joseph Sylvester did important work on matrix theory. In 1851 Sylvester discovered the discriminant of a cubic equation and first used the name 'discriminant' for equations of higher order. Sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution in Liverpool. In 1833 he became a student at St John's College, Cambridge. Two other famous mathematicians took the tripos examination in the same year as Sylvester, namely Duncan Gregory and George Green . Sylvester came second, Green who was 20 years older than the other two came fourth with Duncan Gregory fifth. (The mathematician who came first did little work of importance after graduating: this was not at uncommon in the 'speed test' which the tripos was at that time.) At this time it was necessary for a student to sign a religious oath to the Church of England before graduating and Sylvester, being Jewish, refused to take the oath necessary so could not graduate. For the same reason he was not eligible for a Smith's prize nor for a Fellowship. From 1838 Sylvester taught physics for three years at the University of London, one of the few places which did not bar him because of his religion. His former teacher

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    James Joseph Sylvester. James Joseph Sylvester (Zárí 14, 1814 Brezen 15, 1897) byl Anglictina matematik a právník. Sylvester
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    James Joseph Sylvester
    James Joseph Sylvester September 14 March 15 ) was an English mathematician and lawyer . Sylvester was born in London and studied at St John's College Cambridge from but because he was Jewish he did not graduate. In he came to United States for a short period to become a professor at the University of Virginia but he soon returned to England . In Sylvester again crossed the Atlantic ocean for a new job at Johns Hopkins University . In he founded the American Journal of Mathematics , the first mathematical journal in the United States. It is said that Sylvester invented one of the highest numbers of mathematical terms such as the

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    So gushes from affection bruised
    Ambition's purple tide,
    And steadfast faith unkindly used
    Hardens to stubborn pride.
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    The Laws of Verse (1870), which he practiced with as marked originality and flare as he did the analysis of numbers. His finest poem, "Kepler's Apostrophe," movingly expresses the fierce unrepentance of any free-thinking researcher. Sylvester lived unemployed in London until 1877, when Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore engaged him as Professor of Mathematics. In America he founded the American Journal of Mathematics. By 1883 he left Baltimore to become Savilian Professor of Geometry at New College, Oxford University, until his retirement in 1894. Among the greatest mathematicians of the 19th century, Sylvester founded invariant algebra. He died on March 15, 1897, and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery, Ball's Pond, London.
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    Biography of james J sylvester (18141897) james joseph sylvester. Born 3 Sept 1814 in London, England james joseph sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution
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    James Joseph Sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution in Liverpool. In 1833 he became a student at St John's College, Cambridge. Two other famous mathematicians took the tripos examination in the same year as Sylvester, namely Duncan Gregory and George Green . Sylvester came second, Green who was 20 years older than the other two came fourth with Duncan Gregory fifth. (The mathematician who came first did little work of importance after graduating: this was not at uncommon in the 'speed test' which the tripos was at that time.) At this time it was necessary for a student to sign a religious oath to the Church of England before graduating and Sylvester, being Jewish, refused to take the oath necessary so could not graduate. For the same reason he was not eligible for a Smith's prize nor for a Fellowship. From 1838 Sylvester taught physics for three years at the University of London, one of the few places which did not bar him because of his religion. His former teacher

    20. References For Sylvester
    Books HF Baker (ed), The Collected Mathematical Papers of james joseph sylvester, 4 vols, (Cambridge, 19041912). james joseph sylvester LL.D., FRS, Amer.
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  • Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  • Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books:
  • H F Baker (ed), The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester , 4 vols, (Cambridge, 1904-1912).
  • K H Parshall and D E Rowe, The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876-1900 : J J Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E H Moore (Providence, 1994). Articles:
  • G E Andrews, J J Sylvester, Johns Hopkins and partitions, in A century of mathematics in America I (Providence, RI, 1988), 21-40.
  • R C Archibald, Material concerning James Joseph Sylvester, in Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage to George Sarton on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (New York, 1947), 209-217.
  • A Cayley, Scientific Worthies XXV : James Joseph Sylvester, Nature
  • L S Feuer, Sylvester in Virginia, The Mathematical Intelligencer
  • G B Halsted, Biography. James Joseph Sylvester A.M., LL.D., F.R.S., D.C.L., Amer. Math. Monthly
  • G B Halsted, Biography. James Joseph Sylvester LL.D., F.R.S.
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