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James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters
by Karen Hunger Parshall
Binding: Hardcover, illustrated edition edition, 344 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
List Price: USD $264.00
Weight: 115
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.3 x W: 0.49 inches
ISBN 10: 0198503911
ISBN 13: 9780198503910
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In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester is the eccentric, hot tempered, sword cane wielding British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, developed a theory of invariants that then died spectacularly in the 1890s as a result of groundbreaking, modern' techniques. This has some grounding in fact but owes much to fiction. Here, historian Karen Hunger Parshall draws on over 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence to paint a truer picture of this leading figure.

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