Sylvester Letters
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0103 MS ADD 221 |
Held at | : University College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll › |
Full title | : Sylvester Letters |
Date(s) | : 1865-1896 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 10 letters |
Name of creator(s) | : Sylvester | James Joseph | 1814-1897 | Professor of Geometry |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sylvester was born on 3 September 1814. He was educated in London, at the Royal Institution Liverpool, and at St John's College Cambridge. He held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at University College London from 1837 to 1841. In 1841 he went to the USA, being appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia. He later worked at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. From 1883 he was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University. Sylvester discovered a Theory of Reciprocants, which he made known at Oxford in 1885. He invented kinematical instruments, such as the Plagiograph and Geometrical Fan. He was the founder and first Editor of the American Journal of Mathematics. He won many medals for his work. Sylvester also published a very large number of mathematical memoirs in English and foreign journals. He died on 15 March 1897.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Eight letters from Sylvester to his niece, Contessa Edith Gigliucci, 1865-1896, and two letters to Count Mario Gigliucci, 1896.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Mrs Marion Rawson, whose cousin Contessa Bona Gigliucci is the daughter of Contessa Edith Gigliucci, in November 1971 and January 1972.
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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised Aug 2001
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