biography
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Sylvester, James Joseph
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1814–97)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge but, as a Jew, was disqualified from graduating. He became professor at University College London (1837), and the University of Virginia (1841–5). Returning to London he worked as an actuary, and was called to the bar in 1850. He then took up academic life again, becoming professor of mathematics at Woolwich (1855–70), at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (1877–83), and at Oxford (1883–94). He made important contributions to the theory of invariants and to number theory. |
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