James Joseph Sylvester – Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
Book Details
Author(s)Karen Hunger Parshall
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN / ASIN0801882915
ISBN-139780801882913
AvailabilityHabituellement expédié sous 24 h
Sales Rank1,284,075
CategoryBiography & Autobiography
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
James Joseph Sylvester Offers a biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester and his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, ultimately becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruits at Johns Hopkins in 1876 and winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883. Full description
