James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters

ISBN: 9780198503910 出版年：2013 页码：340 Parshall, Karen Hunger Oxford University Press

James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. For the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence are brought together, accompanied by mathematical and historical commentary from a leading historian of mathematics, to reveal the truth behind the life and work of this eccentric mathematician.