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Book Information:
Author:
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.,
ISBN 0-8018-8291-5,
US$69.95$
1. T. Crilly, Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2006.
Joseph Warren Dauben, Georg Cantor, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. His mathematics and philosophy of the infinite. MR 1082146
Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2006. Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world. MR 2216541
Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester, The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998. Life and work in letters. MR 1674190
- 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
- 3.
- K. Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2006. MR 2216541
- 4.
- K. Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. MR 1674190
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Judith Grabiner
Affiliation:
Pitzer College
Email:
jgrabine@pitzer.edu
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
44 (2007), 481-485
Published electronically:
March 29, 2007
Review copyright:
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American Mathematical Society
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