Edmund Gunter
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician (1814-1897)
James Joseph Sylvesterwas an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
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James Joseph Sylvesterwas an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was a professor at Oxford University.
4 Quotes by James Joseph Sylvester
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Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph SylvesterEnglish mathematician (1814-1897)
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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
James Joseph SylvesterEnglish mathematician (1814-1897)
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
James Joseph SylvesterEnglish mathematician (1814-1897)
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
James Joseph SylvesterEnglish mathematician (1814-1897)