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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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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. |
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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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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897 -- Correspondence.
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Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897. |
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Correspondence.
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Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
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Mathematicians. |
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Great Britain. |
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Electronic books.
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Personal correspondence.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal correspondence.
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Parshall, Karen Hunger, 1955-
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Print version: Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897. James Joseph Sylvester. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199671380 (OCoLC)810946920 |
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9780191651212 (electronic book) |
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0191651214 (electronic book) |
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9781283960885 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283960885 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780199671380 |
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0199671389 |
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