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

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Science & Technology
ISBN-13
9780199671380
ISBN
9780199671380

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199671389
ISBN-13
9780199671380
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143585936

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
340 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
James Joseph Sylvester : Life and Work in Letters
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Cultural Heritage, General
Type
Textbook
Author
Karen Hunger Parshall
Subject Area
Mathematics, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Uk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-554774
Reviews
"...this scholary work...the reviewer knows of hardly any other edition containing such valuable and complete information as is provided here on every topic or person mentioned or allueded to in the letters...Most welcome!" --MATH, 'Professor Parshall has made it her buisiness to follow Sylvester down the years in all contries he visited and she has presented us with a vivid picture of the man.She has gone beyond the myth and beyond Bell's indelible journalism and has consolidated and updated R.C Archibald's pioneering work. Sylvester's blood courses through his veins as we witness those years of intense creativity.Mathematicians will appreciate the clear exposition of mathematics oftime..The ample footnotes are exceptionally well researched and informative. This book will be most widely read by mathematicians but will also be invaluable to those interested in the social history ofBritain and its European connections'The Mathematical Gazette'...this scholary work...the reviewer knows of hardly any other edition containing such valuable and complete information as is provided here on every topic or person mentioned or allueded to in the letters...Most welcome!'MATH, '...this scholary work...the reviewer knows of hardly any other edition containing such valuable and complete information as is provided here on every topic or person mentioned or allueded to in the letters...Most welcome! MATH, 'Professor Parshall has made it her buisiness to follow Sylvester down the years in all contries he visited and she has presented us with a vivid picture of the man.She has gone beyond the myth and beyond Bell's indelible journalism and has consolidated and updated R.C Archibald's pioneeringwork. Sylvester's blood courses through his veins as we witness those years of intense creativity.Mathematicians will appreciate the clear exposition of mathematics of time..The ample footnotes are exceptionally well researched and informative. This book will be most widely read by mathematiciansbut will also be invaluable to those interested in the social history of Britain and its European connections' The Mathematical Gazette, "Professor Parshall has made it her buisiness to follow Sylvester down the years in all contries he visited and she has presented us with a vivid picture of the man.She has gone beyond the myth and beyond Bell's indelible journalism and has consolidated and updated R.C Archibald's pioneeringwork. Sylvester's blood courses through his veins as we witness those years of intense creativity.Mathematicians will appreciate the clear exposition of mathematics of time..The ample footnotes are exceptionally well researched and informative. This book will be most widely read by mathematiciansbut will also be invaluable to those interested in the social history of Britain and its European connections" --The Mathematical Gazette
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
510.92 B
Table Of Content
1. Negotiating "the world's slippery path"2. Laying the foundation of a theory of invariants3. Battling the authorities and the muses4. Ending and beginning a career5. "Moulding the mathematical education of 55 million" Americans6. Returning home
Synopsis
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 time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence in an effort to establish the true picture. It reveals - through the letters as well as through the detailed mathematical and historical commentary accompanying them - Sylvester the friend, man of principle, mathematician, poet, professor, scientific activist, social observer, traveller. It also provides a detailed look at Sylvester's thoughts and thought processes as it shows him acting in both personal and professional spheres over the course of his eighty-two year life. The Sylvester who emerges from this analysis - unlike the Sylvester of the folkloric caricature - offers deep insight into the development of the technical and social structures of mathematics., 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 time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence in an effort to establish the true picture. It reveals - through the letters as well as through the detailed mathematical and historical commentary accompanying them - Sylvester the friend, man of principle, mathematician, poet, professor, scientific activist, social observer, traveller. It also provides a detailed look at Sylvester's thoughts and thought processes as it shows him acting in both personal and professional spheres over the course of his eighty-two year life. The Sylvester who emerges from this analysis - unlike the Sylvester of the folkloric caricature - offers deep insight into the development of the technical and social structures of mathematics., James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. For the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence are brought together, accompanied by mathematical and historical commentary from a leading historian of mathematics, to reveal the truth behind the life and work of this eccentric mathematician.
LC Classification Number
QA29.S96P375 2013

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