Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, Volume 1
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- ISBN 9780821836545
- Weight: 1446g
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2005
- Publisher: American Mathematical Society
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From the Preface: ""The longest paper in volume 1 is ""On the Theory of the Syzygetic Relations of two Rational Integral Functions, comprising an application to the Theory of Sturm's Functions"", and to this many of the shorter papers in the volume are contributory ...the volume contains also Sylvester's dialytic method of elimination, his Essay on Canonical Forms, and early investigations in the theory of Invariants. It also contains celebrated theorems as to Determinants and investigations as to the Transformation of Quadratic Forms and the recognition of the Invariant factors of a matrix.
James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897), a mathematician, poet, and wit, was one of the contributors to the nineteenth-century English tradition in algebra. He was also an early figure in the establishment of graduate education in mathematics in the United States. One of his main contributions, with Arthur Cayley, was to initiate the theory of algebraic invariants. Among Sylvester's classic results are his theory of elementary divisors and his law of inertia of quadratic forms. This four-volume set contains his collected works.
