James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematician, Academic
1814 – 1897
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Who was James Joseph Sylvester?
James Joseph Sylvester FRS 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 professor at Oxford.
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- May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
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- Born
- Sep 3, 1814
London - Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- English people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- St John's College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- University of London
- Employment
- Johns Hopkins University
- Died
- Mar 15, 1897
London
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on July 23, 2013
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