James Joseph Sylvester : life and work in letters / Karen Hunger Parshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parshall, Karen Hunger, 1955- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897--Correspondence.

Mathematicians--Great Britain--Correspondence.

Mathematicians.

Local Subjects:

Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Summary:

This book brings together for the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence in an attempt to separate the fact from the many myths surrounding his life and work.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliography: p286-312. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliography (p. [286]-312) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-02070-1

1-283-96088-5

0-19-165121-4

OCLC:

827208787