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James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World

Karen Hunger Parshall

This text offers a biography of James Joseph Sylvester & his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruit at Johns Hopkins in 1876 & winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyAward Category: PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsLabor, Work & OrganizingReligion & Religious Movements

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography2006Honorable mentionOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • James Joseph Sylvester98%

  2. 02 Central places

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    • Oxford55%
    • Cambridge42%
    • America36%

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

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