Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-446) and index.
Contents:
Establishing a mathematical routine -- Introduction : James Joseph Sylvester : the myth, the mathematician, the man -- The Born to "the faith in which the founder of Christianity was educated" -- The Josephs of Liverpool -- The Abraham Joseph family of London -- The Royal Institution School, Liverpool -- ch. 2. A price of dissent -- Cambridge debates dissent -- Within the walls of St. John's -- A two-year hiatus -- Back at St. Jon's -- The 1837 tripos -- ch. 3. The hollow walls of academe -- An unexpected opportunity -- Professor of natural philosophy at University College London -- Looking beyond England -- Professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia -- Struggling against an "Adverse tide of affairs" -- ch. 4. Actuary by day... mathematician by night -- The actuary : an emergent "Professional man" -- J.J. Sylvester, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Actuary and secretary -- The Institute of Actuaries -- Divided loyalties : mathematician or actuary? -- Establishing a mathematical routine -- ch. 9. Sustaining the American Journal of Mathematics -- The emergence of a theory of invariants -- Crafting the "new algebra" -- The problem of Syzygies -- From actuary to academic? -- ch. 6. A new beginning -- Changing responsibilities -- The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich -- Professor of mathematics once more - A roving mathematical eye -- ch. 7. At war with the military -- First battle -- Temporary truce -- Second battle -- Hard-won victories -- ch. 8. The uneasy years -- Victorian England and educational reform -- Reform and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich -- Mathematics misrepresented and misunderstood : taking on Huxley -- The BAAS and science education -- Poetry soothes the soul -- Life after Woolwich -- New possibilities on the horizon? -- ch. 9. Exploring familiar ground on unfamiliar territory -- First impressions -- Getting started -- Thriving in the graduate classroom -- Launching the American Journal of Mathematics -- Sustaining the American Journal of Mathematics -- The Index. Sylvester and his early students -- From invariant theory to the theory of numbers -- From number theory to "universal algebra" -- A troubled transition to the theory of partitions -- Henry Smith is dead -- ch. 11. A bittersweet victory -- An Oxford in transition -- Between two worlds -- A rocky year -- Hopkins in Oxfordshire? -- ch. 12. The final transition -- Increasing signs of age -- An international competition -- A steady decline -- The final years -- Epilogue : James Joseph Sylvester : the man and his legacies -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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