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James Joseph Sylvester

Life and Work in Letters

By: James Joseph Sylvester,Karen Hunger Parshall

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James Joseph Sylvester

Life and Work in Letters

By: James Joseph Sylvester,Karen Hunger Parshall

This book brings together for the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence in an attempt to separate the fact from the many myths surrounding his life and work --

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Oxford University Press

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0199671389

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9780199671380

Remarkable Mathematicians

From Euler to von Neumann

By: Ioan James

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Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. The men and women James has chosen to portray are representative of the history of mathematics, such that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Topological Topics (Cambridge, 1983), Fibrewise Topology (Cambridge, 1989), Introduction to Uniform Spaces (Cambridge, 1990), Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag New York, 1999), and co-author with Michael C. Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James is the former editor of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series and volume editor of numerous books. He is the organizer of the Oxford Series of Topology symposia and other conferences, and co-chairman of the Task Force for Mathematical Sciences of Campaign for Oxford.

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286

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Mathematical Association of America

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0521817773

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9780521817776

Driven to Innovate

A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists

By: Ioan Mackenzie James

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Driven to Innovate

A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists

By: Ioan Mackenzie James

Ioan James celebrates the extraordinary contribution made by Jewish people in mathematics and physics, from the mathematician Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, to distinguished nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Niels Bohr. He tells the life-stories of thirty-five men and women, born in the nineteenth century, who were at the forefront of research in the closely related fields of mathematics and physics, often in the face of various kinds of anti-Semitism. Some were caught up in the trauma of the Nazi accession to power in Germany and the Second World War. Wolfgang Pauli, described as 'greater than Einstein' by his contemporary Max Born, became a German national following the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 but was able to escape to the United States for the duration of the war. Already hampered by anti-Semitism in his native Poland, logician and mathematician Alfred Tarski found himself stranded in the USA at the outbreak of war and did not see his wife and sons until the war's end. The Italian mathematician Vito Volterra publicly opposed Mussolini's Fascist regime at considerable personal risk. Others such as George Pólya and Emmy Noether found that their left-wing political beliefs hindered their careers.

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328

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Peter Lang

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190616522X

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9781906165222

Intermediate Algebra

By: Hall,James W. Hall

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Intermediate Algebra

By: Hall,James W. Hall

This popular, pedagogically rich mainstream text in intermediate algebra was one of the first on the market to introduce functions early (in Chapter 2). Graphing of linear systems is also introduced early in the text, and the optional use of graphing calculators is now integrated throughout.

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746

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0534940471

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9780534940478

The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester

By: James Joseph Sylvester

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The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester

By: James Joseph Sylvester

From the Preface: ``Volume 4 contains Sylvester's Constructive Theory of Partitions, papers on Binary Matrices, and the Lectures on the Theory of Reciprocants. There is an added Index to the four volumes, and Biographical Notice of Sylvester.

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800

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821842382

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9780821842386

James Joseph Sylvester

Life and Work in Letters

By: Karen Hunger Parshall

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James Joseph Sylvester

Life and Work in Letters

By: Karen Hunger Parshall

James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. For the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence are brought together, accompanied by mathematical and historical commentary from a leading historian of mathematics, to reveal the truth behind the life and work of this eccentric mathematician.

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OUP Oxford

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