James Joseph Sylvester: Quick Facts


Facts

Born September 3, 1814 • London • England
Died March 15, 1897 (aged 82) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1880)
Subjects Of Study invariant

Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Peter Barlow
Peter Barlow
English optician and mathematician
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Diophantus
Greek mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Swedish mathematician
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Frigyes Riesz
Hungarian mathematician
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Felix Klein
German mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
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James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
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Stanley Morison
English typographer