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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician (1814-1897)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 September 1814
- Died
- 15 March 1897
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- James
- Father
- Abraham Joseph
- Field of work
- algebra, combinatorics, number theory, mathematics, linear algebra, matrix theory
- Occupation
- mathematician, actuary, university teacher, barrister
- Position held
- Savilian Professor of Geometry, chairperson
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- birth name
- James Joseph
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Men-at-the-Bar, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- doctoral student
- William Pitt Durfee, George Bruce Halsted, Irving Stringham, Thomas Craig, Fabian Franklin, Ellery William Davis, George Stetson Ely, Oscar Howard Mitchell
- educated at
- St John's College, Trinity College, Dublin, University College London, Liverpool Royal Institution
- employer
- Johns Hopkins University, University of London, University of Virginia, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, University of Oxford, Equity and Law Life Assurance Society
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Athenaeum Club, American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- member of ethnic group
- Jewish people
- name in native language
- James Joseph Sylvester
- notable work
- Sylvester's law of inertia, Sylvester–Gallai theorem, Sylvester's sequence, Sylvester's formula, Weinstein–Aronszajn identity, Sylvester matrix, Sylvester's triangle problem, Sylvester's criterion, Sylvester domain, Prime geodesic ø of infinite Nullities!
- place of burial
- Kingsbury Road Cemetery
- student of
- John Hymers
- topic's main category
- Category:James Joseph Sylvester
- writing language
- English
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