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This text offers a biography of James Joseph Sylvester & his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruit at Johns Hopkins in 1876 & winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883.Parshall, Karen Hunger is the author of 'James Joseph Sylvester Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World', published 2006 under ISBN 9780801882913 and ISBN 0801882915.
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