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James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World Parshall, Karen Hunger (Professor of History and Mathematics, University of Virginia)
James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
Parshall, Karen Hunger (Professor of History and Mathematics, University of Virginia)
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.
544 pages, 8 halftones, 5 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 12, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801882913 |
| Publishers | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Pages | 544 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 242 × 36 mm · 830 g |
| Language | English |