James Joseph Sylvester - Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World

Informationen zum Autor Karen Hunger Parshall is a professor of history and mathematics at the University of Virginia. Klappentext In this first biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester, Karen Hunger Parshall makes a signal contribution to the history of mathematics, Victorian history, and the history of science. Zusammenfassung She highlights the human side of what many view as that most arcane and otherworldly of intellectual endeavors! mathematics! which indeed answers to such diverse factors as religion! ego! and depression.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Hunger Parshall, Karen Hunger (Professor of History and M Parshall, Karen Hunger (Professor of History and Mathematics Parshall
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2006
• EAN: 9780801882913
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8291-3
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, Biography: science, technology & medicine, History of mathematics, Biography: science, technology and medicine