Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester Quotes
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.
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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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