James Joseph Sylvester
1814–97
Mathematician. Professor of natural philosophy, University College, London, 1838–41. Professor of mathematics, University of Virginia, 1841–2; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1855–70; Johns Hopkins University, 1876–83. Savilian Professor of geometry, University of Oxford, 1883–94. FRS 1839.
Sources
ODNB
Parshall 2006.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Parshall, Karen Hunger. 2006. James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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