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Birth: | 3rd September, 1814 |
Death: | 15th March, 1897 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Mathematician |
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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