James Joseph Sylvester

James Joseph Sylvester , Mathematician and geometrician English, was born with London on September 3rd 1814 and is deceased with Mayfair on March 13rd 1897.

He taught the Mathématiques starting from 1837 with the the United States, at the university of Baltimore then to the Université of Oxford in England. In 1839, he became member of the Royal Society of London.

He worked with Arthur Cayley on the algebraic forms, particularly on the quadratic Formes and their invariants ( law of inertia of Sylvester ) and with the theory of the determining. He introduced in 1850 the term of matrix ( matrix of Sylvester ).

The majority of the hundreds of memories which it has writing have summers published in the Cambridge & Dublin Mathematical Journal , the Philosophical Magazine , and the Philosophical Transactions .

It introduced many mathematical notations, of which the indicating function of Euler φ ( N ). Its complete works were published in four volumes.

It received the Royal Medal in 1861 and the Médaille Copley of the Royal Society in 1880. In 1901, the Médaille Sylvester of the Royal Society was created in its honor.

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