James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters by Karen Hunger Parshall

James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters

Karen Hunger Parshall

321 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history mathematics philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced
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In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) is the eccentric, hot-tempered, sword-cane-wielding, nineteenth-century British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, developed a theory and language of invariants tha...

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