Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 3rd September, 1814 |
| Death: | 15th March, 1897 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Mathematician |
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James Joseph Sylvester was 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 professor at Oxford.
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