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Book Information:

Author: Karen Hunger Parshall
Title: James Joseph Sylvester: Life and work in letters
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998, xviii + 321 pp., ISBN 0-1985-0391-1, $98.00

References [Enhancements On Off] (What's this?)

  • 1. Max Noether, ``James Joseph Sylvester'', Mathematische Annalen 50 (1898), 133-156.
  • 2. Raymond Clare Archibald, ``Unpublished letters of James Joseph Sylvester and other new information concerning his life and work'', Osiris 1 (1936), 85-154.
Review Information:

Reviewer: Uta C. Merzbach
Email: ucmerzbach@prodigy.net
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 79-82
MSC (2000): Primary 01A55
Published electronically: October 11, 2000
Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society
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