James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters

by Karen Hunger Parshall

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199671389
• ISBN13: 9780199671380
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"