James Joseph Sylvester : Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world / Karen Hunger Parshall.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 461 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction: James Joseph Sylvester: the myth, the mathematician, the man. 1. Born to the faith in which the founder of christianity was educated 2. A price of dissent 3. The hollow walls of academe 4. Actuary by day... mathematician by night 5. Into the invariant-theoretic unknown 6. A new beginning 7. At war with the military 8. The uneasy years 9. Exploring familiar ground on unfamiliar territory 10. Tackling new challenges in a home away from home 11. A bittersweet victory 12. The final transition. Epilogue: James Joseph Sylvester: the man and his legacies. Notes. References. Index. Illustrations follow page
