James Joseph Sylvester : life and work in letters /
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...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford :
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2013.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |