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James Joseph Sylvester

1814 - 1897

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James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Joseph Sylvester has received more than 269,641 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). James Joseph Sylvester is the 164th most popular mathematician (down from 145th in 2019), the 784th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 747th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Mathematician.

James Joseph Sylvester was a British mathematician who is most famous for his work in matrix theory and invariant theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 164 out of 1,004. Before him are Robert Aumann, Giambattista della Porta, Simplicius of Cilicia, Wacław Sierpiński, Alonzo Church, and André Weil. After him are Pierre Bouguer, George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, and Aleksandr Lyapunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 14. Before him are Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, Jenny von Westphalen, and August Grisebach. After him are Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Heinrich Geißler. Among people deceased in 1897, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 11. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt, Edward Drinker Cope, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, and Albert Marth. After him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Andrés Bonifacio, Giuseppina Strepponi, Jiroemon Kimura, and Sebastian Kneipp.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 784 out of 8,785. Before him are Ken Hensley (1945), Julie Walters (1950), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Gielgud (1904), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), and James Black (1924). After him are P. D. James (1920), Naomi Watts (1968), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Robert FitzRoy (1805), and Robert Peel (1788).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, James Joseph Sylvester ranks 18. Before him are John Couch Adams (1819), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Oughtred (1574), Robert Grosseteste (1175), and Arthur Cayley (1821). After him are James Gregory (1638), Michael Atiyah (1929), Henry Briggs (1561), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), and Thomas Simpson (1710).

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