James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory...

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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case of coefficients in an integral domain). Sylvester matrices are named after James Joseph Sylvester. Formally, let p and q be two nonzero polynomials...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scientific equations named after people Franklin, Fabian (1897), "James Joseph Sylvester", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 3 (9): 299–309...

vectors. The terms covariant and contravariant were introduced by James Joseph Sylvester in 1851. Curvilinear coordinate systems, such as cylindrical or...

published nothing in 1848, see J. J. Sylvester with H. F. Baker, ed., The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester (Cambridge, England: Cambridge...

symbolic method. They are often attributed to Édouard Lucas (or James Joseph Sylvester), who used the technique extensively. In the 1930s and 1940s, Eric...

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...

of his students went on to become mathematicians, most notably James Joseph Sylvester, and some of them, Edward Routh and Isaac Todhunter, well known...

a theorem. The theorem is named after the British mathematician James Joseph Sylvester. Consider three pairwise distinct vectors of equal length u → {\displaystyle...

Nick Sylvester is an American record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music executive. He is best known for his writing and production...

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...

113423713055421844361000443 (sequence A000058 in the OEIS). Sylvester's sequence is named after James Joseph Sylvester, who first investigated it in 1880. Its values...

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...

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....

Sylvester James Gates Jr. (born December 15, 1950), known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry...

notable generalization of the Pauli matrices was constructed by James Joseph Sylvester in 1882. These are known as "Weyl–Heisenberg matrices" as well as...

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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to burst forth into new forms of vegetable and animal existence. James Joseph Sylvester What is mathematics? What is it for? What are mathematicians doing...

hunger and wounds, and the freezing temperatures they experienced. James Joseph Sylvester introduced the term "graph" in 1878 in the scientific magazine Nature...

of invariants for bilinear forms under orthogonal substitutions. James Joseph Sylvester also arrived at the singular value decomposition for real square...

} 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...