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James Joseph Sylvester : life and work in letters / edited by Karen Hunger Parshall

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Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource
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Parshall, Karen Hunger, 1955-
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Contents
Cover; Contents; 1 Negotiating the World's Slippery Path -- 2 Laying the Foundation of a Theory of Invariants; 3 Battling the Authorities and the Muses; 4 Ending and Beginning a Career; 5 Moulding the Mathematical Education of 55 Million Americans; 6 Returning Home; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Summary
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 that then died spectacularly in the 1890s as a result of David Hilbert's groundbreaking, 'modern' techniques. This, like all folklore, has some grounding in fact but owes much to fiction. The present volume brings together for the first time140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence in an effort to establish the true picture. It reveals - through the le.
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9780191651212 (electronic bk.)
0191651214 (electronic bk.)
9781283960885 (MyiLibrary)
1283960885 (MyiLibrary)
9780198503910 (e-ISBN)
0198503911 (e-ISBN)
9780199671380
0199671389
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-312) and index.
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