age ~34
from West Chester, PA
Author
James J. Sylvester
ISBN #
0821836544
Here, in this first biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester, Karen Hunger Parshall makes a signal contribution to the history of mathematics, Victorian history, and the history of science.A brilliant Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came twice to Americ...
Author
Karen Hunger Parshall
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
544
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN #
0801882915
EAN Code
9780801882913
ISBN #
4
Author
Al Tyll
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
302
Publisher
Doubleday
ISBN #
0385113498
EAN Code
9780385035729
ISBN #
8
The laws of verse - Principles of versification exemplified in metrical translations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, med...
Author
James Joseph Sylvester Sylvester
Binding
Paperback
Pages
188
Publisher
hansebooks
ISBN #
3744722341
EAN Code
9783744722346
ISBN #
10
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...
Author
Karen Hunger Parshall
Binding
Paperback
Pages
340
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199671389
EAN Code
9780199671380
ISBN #
5
From the Preface: "The longest paper in volume 1 is "On the Theory of the Syzygetic Relations of two Rational Integral Functions, comprising an application to the Theory of Sturm's Functions", and to this many of the shorter papers in the volume are contributory ... the volume contains also Sylveste...
Author
James Joseph Sylvester
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
659
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
ISBN #
0821836544
EAN Code
9780821836545
ISBN #
3
… Houston and his soldiers defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 April 1836, with the Texan army shouting "Remember Goliad, Remember the Alamo!" The day after the battle, on 22 April, a small band of Texan forces led by James Sylvester captured Santa Anna, dressed in a dragoo...