James Joseph Sylvester
Subtitle: life and work in letters
By: Karen Hunger Parshall.
Publisher: Clarendon
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Sylvester, James Joseph, -- Correspondence.; Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
Description: This book brings together for the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence in an attempt to separate the fact from the many myths surrounding his life and work --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-312) and index.