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James Joseph Sylvester

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James Joseph Sylvester FRS (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. [1]

70 relations: American Journal of Mathematics, Annals of Mathematics, Arthur Cayley, Augustus De Morgan, Baltimore, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Church of England, Combinatorics, Copley Medal, De Morgan Medal, Discrete geometry, Discriminant, Euler's totient function, Fabian Franklin, Fellow of the Royal Society, G. B. Halsted, George Salmon, Graph (discrete mathematics), Greek language, Harry Fielding Reid, Invariant theory, Irving Stringham, Isaac Todhunter, Jews, John Hymers, Johns Hopkins University, Judaism, Latin, List of things named after James Joseph Sylvester, Liverpool Royal Institution, Master's degree, Mathematician, Matrix (mathematics), Metre (poetry), Morgan Crofton, Number theory, Orchard-planting problem, Oxford, Partition (number theory), Prime number theorem, Royal Medal, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Royal Society, Savilian Professor of Geometry, Smith's Prize, St John's College, Cambridge, Sylver coinage, Sylvester domain, Sylvester matrix, Sylvester Medal, ..., Sylvester's criterion, Sylvester's determinant identity, Sylvester's formula, Sylvester's law of inertia, Sylvester's sequence, Sylvester–Gallai theorem, The Times, Thirty-nine Articles, Thomas Craig (mathematician), Trinity College Dublin, Tripos, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, University College London, University of London, University of Michigan, University of Oxford, University of Virginia, William Pitt Durfee, William Roberts McDaniel. Expand index (20 more) »

American Journal of Mathematics

The American Journal of Mathematics is a bimonthly mathematics journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Annals of Mathematics

The Annals of Mathematics is a bimonthly mathematical journal published by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Arthur Cayley

Arthur Cayley F.R.S. (16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895) was a British mathematician.

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Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Christine Ladd-Franklin

Christine Ladd-Franklin (December 1, 1847 – March 5, 1930) was an American psychologist, logician, and mathematician.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Combinatorics

Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.

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Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is a scientific award given by the Royal Society, for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science." It alternates between the physical and the biological sciences.

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De Morgan Medal

The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society.

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Discrete geometry

Discrete geometry and combinatorial geometry are branches of geometry that study combinatorial properties and constructive methods of discrete geometric objects.

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Discriminant

In algebra, the discriminant of a polynomial is a polynomial function of its coefficients, which allows deducing some properties of the roots without computing them.

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Euler's totient function

In number theory, Euler's totient function counts the positive integers up to a given integer that are relatively prime to.

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Fabian Franklin

Fabian Franklin (1853–1939) was an American (Hungarian born) engineer, mathematician and journalist, husband of Christine Ladd-Franklin.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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G. B. Halsted

George Bruce Halsted (November 25, 1853 – March 16, 1922), usually cited as G. B. Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his own work and his many important translations.

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George Salmon

Rev Prof George Salmon DD FBA FRS FRSE LLD (25 September 1819 – 22 January 1904) was a distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian.

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Graph (discrete mathematics)

In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a graph is a structure amounting to a set of objects in which some pairs of the objects are in some sense "related".

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Harry Fielding Reid

Harry Fielding Reid (May 18, 1859 – June 18, 1944) was an American geophysicist.

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Invariant theory

Invariant theory is a branch of abstract algebra dealing with actions of groups on algebraic varieties, such as vector spaces, from the point of view of their effect on functions.

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Irving Stringham

Washington Irving Stringham (December 10, 1847 – October 5, 1909) was a "Professor of Mathematics and Sometime Dean in the University of California" born in Yorkshire, New York.

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Isaac Todhunter

Isaac Todhunter FRS (23 November 1820 – 1 March 1884), was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Hymers

John Hymers (1803–1887) was an English mathematician and cleric, and, together with his brother Robert, founder of Hymers College, Hull.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of things named after James Joseph Sylvester

The mathematician J. J. Sylvester was known for his ability to coin new names and new notation for mathematical objects, not based on his own name.

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Liverpool Royal Institution

The Liverpool Royal Institution was a learned society set up in 1814 for "the Promotion of Literature, Science and the Arts".

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Matrix (mathematics)

In mathematics, a matrix (plural: matrices) is a rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows and columns.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Morgan Crofton

Morgan Crofton (1826, Dublin, Ireland – 1915, Brighton, England) was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the field of geometric probability theory.

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Number theory

Number theory, or in older usage arithmetic, is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers.

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Orchard-planting problem

In discrete geometry, the original orchard-planting problem asks for the maximum number of 3-point lines attainable by a configuration of points in the plane.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Partition (number theory)

In number theory and combinatorics, a partition of a positive integer n, also called an integer partition, is a way of writing n as a sum of positive integers.

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Prime number theorem

In number theory, the prime number theorem (PNT) describes the asymptotic distribution of the prime numbers among the positive integers.

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Royal Medal

A Royal Medal, known also as The King's Medal or The Queen's Medal, depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award, is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Savilian Professor of Geometry

The position of Savilian Professor of Geometry was established at the University of Oxford in 1619.

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Smith's Prize

The Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1769.

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St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge (the full, formal name of the college is The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge).

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Sylver coinage

Sylver coinage is a mathematical game for two players, invented by John H. Conway.

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Sylvester domain

In mathematics, a Sylvester domain, named after James Joseph Sylvester by, is a ring in which Sylvester's law of nullity holds.

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Sylvester matrix

In mathematics, a Sylvester matrix is a matrix associated to two univariate polynomials with coefficients in a field or a commutative ring.

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Sylvester Medal

The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society (London) for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize.

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Sylvester's criterion

In mathematics, Sylvester’s criterion is a necessary and sufficient criterion to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite.

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Sylvester's determinant identity

In matrix theory, Sylvester's determinant identity is an identity useful for evaluating certain types of determinants.

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Sylvester's formula

In matrix theory, Sylvester's formula or Sylvester's matrix theorem (named after J. J. Sylvester) or Lagrange−Sylvester interpolation expresses an analytic function of a matrix as a polynomial in, in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of.

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Sylvester's law of inertia

Sylvester's law of inertia is a theorem in matrix algebra about certain properties of the coefficient matrix of a real quadratic form that remain invariant under a change of basis.

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Sylvester's sequence

In number theory, Sylvester's sequence is an integer sequence in which each member of the sequence is the product of the previous members, plus one.

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Sylvester–Gallai theorem

The Sylvester–Gallai theorem in geometry states that, given a finite number of points in the Euclidean plane, either.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thirty-nine Articles

The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (commonly abbreviated as the Thirty-nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles) are the historically defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation.

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Thomas Craig (mathematician)

Thomas Craig was a professor at Johns Hopkins University and a proponent of the methods of differential geometry.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland.

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Tripos

At the University of Cambridge, a Tripos (plural 'Triposes') is any of the undergraduate examinations that qualify an undergraduate for a bachelor's degree or the courses taken by an undergraduate to prepare.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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William Pitt Durfee

William Pitt Durfee (5 February 1855 – 17 December 1941) was an American mathematician who introduced Durfee squares.

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William Roberts McDaniel

William Roberts McDaniel (August 11, 1861 – April 19, 1942) is the namesake for McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joseph_Sylvester

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