James Joseph Sylvester was one of the most colorful mathematicians of the Victorian age. His role in giving an impetus to the American mathematical community in the late 19th century provided a sense of national independence from European scholarship....

1814-1897 English mathematician who laid the basis for the fields of combinatorics and abstract algebra. He was the first Jew to achieve eminence in the English mathematical community, although he spent a number of years in the United States and...

James Joseph Sylvester (September 3, 1814 London – March 15, 1897 Oxford) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics. He played a leadership...