James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory...
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Sylvester's theorem or the Sylvester theorem may refer to any of several theorems named after James Joseph Sylvester: The Sylvester–Gallai theorem, on...
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composer Hannah Sylvester (1903–1973), American blues singer Harold Sylvester (born 1949), American film and television actor James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897)...
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James Sylvester may refer to: James Austin Sylvester (1807–1882), Texas soldier who captured Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897)...
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points or a line that passes through all of them. It is named after James Joseph Sylvester, who posed it as a problem in 1893, and Tibor Gallai, who published...
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theory, Sylvester's determinant identity is an identity useful for evaluating certain types of determinants. It is named after James Joseph Sylvester, who...
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case of coefficients in an integral domain). Sylvester matrices are named after James Joseph Sylvester. Formally, let p and q be two nonzero polynomials...
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a Sylvester equation is a matrix equation of the form: A X + X B = C . {\displaystyle AX+XB=C.} It is named after English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester...
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the sign of its diagonal elements. This property is named after James Joseph Sylvester who published its proof in 1852. Let A {\displaystyle A} be a symmetric...
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Scientific equations named after people Franklin, Fabian (1897), "James Joseph Sylvester", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 3 (9): 299–309...
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published nothing in 1848, see J. J. Sylvester with H. F. Baker, ed., The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester (Cambridge, England: Cambridge...
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vectors. The terms covariant and contravariant were introduced by James Joseph Sylvester in 1851. Curvilinear coordinate systems, such as cylindrical or...
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symbolic method. They are often attributed to Édouard Lucas (or James Joseph Sylvester), who used the technique extensively. In the 1930s and 1940s, Eric...
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without sliding guides. The mechanism was described in 1875 by James Joseph Sylvester in the journal Nature. Like Hart's inversor, it is based on an antiparallelogram...
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In mathematics, a Sylvester domain, named after James Joseph Sylvester by Dicks & Sontag (1978), is a ring in which Sylvester's law of nullity holds....
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of his students went on to become mathematicians, most notably James Joseph Sylvester, and some of them, Edward Routh and Isaac Todhunter, well known...
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a theorem. The theorem is named after the British mathematician James Joseph Sylvester. Consider three pairwise distinct vectors of equal length u → {\displaystyle...
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smallest-circle problem was initially proposed by the English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester in 1857. The smallest-circle problem in the plane is an example...
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Nick Sylvester is an American record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music executive. He is best known for his writing and production...
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research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize. It was named in honour of James Joseph Sylvester, the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford...
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113423713055421844361000443 (sequence A000058 in the OEIS). Sylvester's sequence is named after James Joseph Sylvester, who first investigated it in 1880. Its values...
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player who is last able to move loses. Sylver coinage is named after James Joseph Sylvester, who proved that if a and b are relatively prime positive integers...
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notable generalization of the Pauli matrices was constructed by James Joseph Sylvester in 1882. These are known as "Weyl–Heisenberg matrices" as well as...
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James Prescott Joule FRS FRSE (/dʒuːl/; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire...
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things named after Jean-Pierre Serre List of things named after James Joseph Sylvester List of things named after Alfred Tarski List of things named after...
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consequences for invention and priority as seen below. Also in 1850, James Joseph Sylvester asked if there could be 13 different solutions to the 15-schoolgirl...
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hunger and wounds, and the freezing temperatures they experienced. James Joseph Sylvester introduced the term "graph" in 1878 in the scientific magazine Nature...
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} It has two cusps and is symmetric about the y-axis. In 1864, James Joseph Sylvester studied the curve y 4 − x y 3 − 8 x y 2 + 36 x 2 y + 16 x 2 − 27...
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of invariants for bilinear forms under orthogonal substitutions. James Joseph Sylvester also arrived at the singular value decomposition for real square...
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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (/stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden...
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