James Joseph Sylvester

James Joseph Sylvester
Author: Karen Hunger Parshall
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2006-05-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801882913

This text offers a biography of James Joseph Sylvester & his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruit at Johns Hopkins in 1876 & winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883.