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Book Information
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 pp.,
US$69.95,
ISBN 0-8018-8291-5
References:
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- 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)
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Judith
Grabiner
Affiliation:
Pitzer College
Email:
jgrabine@pitzer.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
44
(2007),
481-485.
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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