James joseph sylvester short biography

English mathematician (1814–1897)

James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an Englishmathematician.

He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

James joseph sylvester short biography

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. At his death, he was a professor at Oxford University.

Biography

James Joseph was born in London on 3 September 1814, the son of Abraham Joseph, a Jewish merchant.^[1] James later adopted the surname Sylvester when his older brother did so upon emigration to the United States.

At the age of 14, Sylvester was a student of Augustus De Morgan at the University of London (now University College London). His family withdrew him from the university after he was accused of stabbing a fellow student with a knif