Mathematics is the music of reason

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Mathematics is the music of reason
Mathematics is the music of reason

Mathematics is the music of reason

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, and the mathematician thinks of music: music is the dream, and mathematics the is working life. ( James Joseph Sylvester ) 

James Joseph was born in London on 3 September 1814. And he was the son of Abraham Joseph, a Jewish merchant. And Sylvester died at 5 Hertford Street, London on 15 March 1897. He is buried in Balls Pond Road Cemetery on Kingsbury Road in London.

James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897). He was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. And he played a leadership role in American mathematics in the latter half of the 19th century as a professor at Johns Hopkins University and as the founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was a professor at Oxford University.

Awards: De Morgan Medal, Copley Medal, Royal Medal
 
Education: St John’s College, University of Cambridge, University of London
 
Nationality: American, British
 
 

 

 

 

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