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James Joseph Sylvester

1814 - 1897

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James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was a professor at Oxford University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Joseph Sylvester is the 166th most popular mathematician (down from 164th in 2019), the 863rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 784th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Mathematician.

James Joseph Sylvester was a British mathematician who is most famous for his work in matrix theory and invariant theory.

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Among mathematicians, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 166 out of 1,004. Before him are Peter Lax, Scipione del Ferro, Ernst Kummer, Sophus Lie, Vito Volterra, and Jost Bürgi. After him are Menelaus of Alexandria, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Joseph Bertrand, Johannes Trithemius, and Wang Chong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 14. Before him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, Henri Nestlé, and Jenny von Westphalen. After him are Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, August Grisebach, Eugène Charles Catalan, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Geißler, and Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1897, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 13. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, and Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Salomon August Andrée, Harriet Jacobs, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Sebastian Kneipp, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 863 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Tolkien (1924), Michael Halliday (1925), John Vane (1927), Amélie of Orléans (1865), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), and Glenda Jackson (1936). After him are Mike Hawthorn (1929), Ælla of Northumbria (800), Brian Epstein (1934), Thandie Newton (1972), Jude Law (1972), and Karl Pearson (1857).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 19. Before him are Isaac Barrow (1631), G. H. Hardy (1877), Brook Taylor (1685), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Colin Maclaurin (1698), and Oliver Heaviside (1850). After him are John Pell (1611), G. I. Taylor (1886), James Gregory (1638), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Arthur Cayley (1821), and Henry Briggs (1561).

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