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unusual facts about James Joseph Sylvester


1870 in poetry

James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes The Laws of Verse


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with David E. Rowe: The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore, AMS/LMS History of Mathematics 8, Providence/London 1994

The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

It was edited under the new title by James Joseph Sylvester and Norman Macleod Ferrers, assisted by George G. Stokes and Arthur Cayley, with Charles Hermite as corresponding editor in Paris, an arrangement that remained stable for the first fifteen volumes.


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