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Date of Birth
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03-September-1814
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Place of Birth
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London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Profession
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Mathematician, Scientist
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Quotes
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- May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
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James Joseph Sylvester FRS was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was professor at Oxford.
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