James Joseph Sylvester : Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world
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.
Print Book, English, 2006
<<The>> Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (Md.), 2006
XIII, 461 p. illustrations 24 cm
9780801882913, 0801882915
1014531169
Introduction: The Myth, the Mathematician, the ManChapter 1. Born to "the Faith in Which the Founder of Christianity Was Educated"Chapter 2. A Price of DissentChapter 3. The Hollow Walls of AcademeChapter 4. Actuary by Day...Mathematician by NightChapter 5. Into the Invariant-Theoretic UnknownChapter 6. A New BeginningChapter 7. At War with the MilitaryChapter 8. The Uneasy YearsChapter 9. Exploring Familiar Ground on Unfamiliar TerritoryChapter 10. Tackling New Challenges in a Home Away from HomeChapter 11. A Bittersweet VictoryChapter 12. The Final TransitionEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex