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Chargement... James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian Worldpar Karen Hunger Parshall
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 "This biography can be strongly recommended to anybody who is interested in the history of mathematics and science in the 19th century, particularly in Britain and in the United States." "Karen Parshall's biography of James Sylvester (1814--1897) is an important and impressively documented contribution to the history of nineteenth-century mathematics."  "This is one of the rare books--Joseph Dauben’s Georg Cantor and Tony Crilly’s Arthur Cayley are the most obvious comparisons--that both put a mathematician’s life into full social context and do justice to his mathematics." Prix et récompenses
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 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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