James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World by Karen Hunger Parshall

James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World

Karen Hunger Parshall

461 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history mathematics philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced
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In this first biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester, Karen Hunger Parshall makes a signal contribution to the history of mathematics, Victorian history, and the history of science.A brilliant Cambridge student at first denied a degree becau...

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