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Author(s): Karen Hunger Parshall
Title: James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world
Additional book information: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, 2006, xiv+461, US$69.95, ISBN 0-8018-8291-5

1.: T. Crilly, Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2006.
2.: J. Dauben, Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1979. Reprinted: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. MR 1082146 (91h:01044)
3.: K. Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2006. MR 2216541 (2007a:01013)
4.: K. Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. MR 1674190 (99k:01072)

Reviewer(s):
Judith Grabiner
Affiliation: Pitzer College
Email: jgrabine@pitzer.edu

MSC (2000): Primary 01A55
PII: S 0273-0979(07)01145-7
Posted: March 29, 2007
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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