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James Joseph Sylvester Born: 3 Sept 1814 in London, England Died: 15 March 1897 in London, England Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing James Joseph Sylvester 's father was Abraham Joseph who was a merchant. Now the first strange fact (which the careful reader may already have noticed!) is that Sylvester's father had the surname Joseph, and not Sylvester. Indeed the subject of this biography grew up with the name James Joseph and it was only shortly before he began his university studies that he decided to add the surname Sylvester. One might ask at this point why he added an extra name. The reason was that his eldest brother decided at this time to emigrate to the United States and he was required to have at least three names before he was allowed to gain residence. We should also mention at this point the fact that Sylvester was born into a Jewish family, and brought up in the Jewish faith, which would lead to difficulties later in his life which we describe below. Sylvester attended two schools in London, the first one being a boarding school in Highgate which he attended up to 1827, after which he undertook a further eighteen months study at a school in Islington. In 1828, at the age of fourteen, he entered University College London, and began his studies in the first year that the College received students. This was a sensible choice since, unlike some other British universities, it was non-sectarian. It also had the very talented

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James Joseph Sylvester James Sylvester attended two primary schools in London, then his secondary schooling was at the Royal Institution in Liverpool. In 1833, he became a student at St. John's College, Cambridge. At this time it was necessary for a student to sign a religious oath to the Church of England before graduating. Sylvester, being Jewish, refused to take the oath, so could not graduate. From 1838 Sylvester taught physics for 3 years at the University of London, one of the few places which did not bar him because of his religion. His former teacher De Morgan was one of his colleagues. At the age of 27 he was appointed to a chair in the University of Virginia but he resigned after a few months. A student who had been reading a newspaper in one of Sylvester's lectures insulted him and Sylvester struck him with a sword stick. The student collapsed in shock and Sylvester thought that he had killed him. He fled to New York boarding the first available ship back to England. On his return Sylvester worked as an actuary, lawyer, and math tutor. His pupils included Florence Nightingale. By good fortune, Cayley was also a lawyer. The two of them discussed mathematics as they walked around the courts, and they became life long friends. Sylvester tried hard to return to being a professional mathematician, and eventually he became professor of mathematics at Woolwich. Sylvester did important work on matrix theory. In 1851 he discovered the discriminant of a cubic equation and first used the name "discriminant" for such expressions of quadratic equations and those of higher order. He used matrix theory to study higher dimensional geometry. He also contributed to the creation of the theory of elementary divisors of lambda matrices.

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James Joseph Sylvester Sylvester was a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the notable mathematicians of the nineteenth century. His writing style was eloquent as evidenced by the following quote from pages 77-78 of The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, volume III, pages 72-87, Address on Commemoration Day at Johns Hopkins University 22 February, 1877. I remember, too, how, in like manner, when a very young professor, fresh from the University of Cambridge, in the act of teaching a private pupil the simpler parts of Algebra, I discovered the principle now generally adopted into the higher text books, which goes by the name of the "Dialytic Method of Elimination." So much for the reaction of the student on the teacher. May the time never come when the two offices of teaching and researching shall be sundered in this University! So long as man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment. Back to my home page Last Updated Fri Apr 19 16:35 EDT 2002 Michael Somos WWW URL: "http://grail.cba.csuohio.edu/~somos/"

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for James Joseph Sylvester Born: 3-Sep-1814 Birthplace: London, England Died: 15-Mar-1897 Location of death: London, England Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Ethnicity: White Occupation: Mathematician Level of fame: Niche Executive summary: Studied finite analysis English mathematician, born in London on the 3rd of September 1814. He went to school first at Highgate and then at Liverpool, and in 1831 entered St. John's College, Cambridge. In his Tripos examination, which through illness he was prevented from taking until 1837, he was placed as second wrangler, but being a Jew and unwilling to sign the Thirty-nine Articles, he could not compete for one of the Smith's prizes and was ineligible for a fellowship, nor could he even take a degree: this last, however, he obtained at Trinity College, Dublin, where religious restrictions were no longer in force. After leaving Cambridge he was appointed to the chair of natural philosophy at University College, London, where his friend Augustus De Morgan American Journal of Mathematics Collected Mathematical Papers , edited by H. F. Baker, appeared in 1904.

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Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page The Red Cross and other charities also need your help. James Joseph Sylvester From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Joseph Sylvester James Joseph Sylvester September 3 March 15 ) was an English mathematician and lawyer Sylvester was born in London and studied at St John's College Cambridge from but because he was Jewish he did not graduate. However, he took Cambridge's famous mathematics exam and was ranked second. In he moved to United States for a short period to become a professor at the University of Virginia but he soon returned to England In Sylvester again crossed the Atlantic Ocean for a new job at Johns Hopkins University . In he founded the American Journal of Mathematics , the first mathematical journal in the United States. He finally returned to England in to take up the position of Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University . He held this chair until his death on March 15 , though in the University appointed a deputy professor in his place. It is said that Sylvester invented one of the highest numbers of mathematical terms such as the totient function n ). His scientific work is collected in a four volume book.

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Dissatisfied with his teaching duties in the chair of natural philosophy, Sylvester left England for Charlottesville in 1841. In November of that year, he assumed the University’s professorship of mathematics, a post left vacant at Charles Bonnycastle's death. Although anti-Semitic articles in Richmond newspapers preceded his arrival, Sylvester was greeted warmly by the University community [2]. His contentment at the university was short-lived, however. Unruly students in his courses and the faculty’s unwillingness to exact the punishment demanded by Sylvester for one Mr. Ballard caused his resignation from the University, effective in March 1842. (Sylvester insisted upon expulsion and the faculty would only support a reprimand, given the recent history of student unrest on the Grounds.) "Such were the accidents that accompanied the avoidable loss to the University of Virginia of one of the most extraordinary mathematicians of modern times" [1, 77]. After trying unsuccessfully to secure positions at Columbia, Harvard, and elsewhere in the United States, Sylvester returned to London eventually to became an actuary and secretary at Equity and Law Life Assurance Company for ten years beginning in 1845. During this period, he met Arthur Cayley, who would become a mathematical catalyst and lifelong friend. By 1850, Sylvester had "exploded onto the mathematical scene, reaching new heights of productivity and creativity" [2, 66]. In 1850 and 1851, drawing from his prior work on determinants and on the theory of forms, he synthesized in a series of twenty papers his ideas and the results of others into what would later be recognized as invariant theory. He spent the rest of his actuarial career further developing this theory with Cayley.

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19. References For Sylvester RC Archibald, Material concerning james joseph sylvester, in Studies and Essays in the A Cayley, Scientific Worthies XXV james joseph sylvester, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Printref/Sylvester.html

References for James Joseph Sylvester Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: H F Baker (ed), The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester , 4 vols, (Cambridge, 1904-1912). K H Parshall and D E Rowe, The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876-1900 : J J Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E H Moore (Providence, 1994). Articles: G E Andrews, J J Sylvester, Johns Hopkins and partitions, in A century of mathematics in America I (Providence, RI, 1988), 21-40. R C Archibald, Material concerning James Joseph Sylvester, in Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage to George Sarton on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (New York, 1947), 209-217. R C Archibald, Unpublished letters of James Joseph Sylvester and other new information concerning his life and work, Osiris H F Baker, Biographical notice of James Joseph Sylvester, in Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester IV (1912), xv-xxv.

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