James Joseph Sylvester

Professor
James Joseph Sylvester
FRS HonFRSE
Professor James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE
Born	James Joseph; 3 September 1814; London, England
Died	15 March 1897 (aged 82); London, England
Resting place	Balls Pond Road Cemetery
Alma mater	St. John's College, Cambridge
Known for	Coining the terms 'graph' and 'discriminant'; Chebyshev–Sylvester constant; Quadruplanar inversor; Sylvester's sequence; Sylvester's formula; Sylvester's determinant theorem; Sylvester matrix; Sylvester–Gallai theorem; Sylvester's law of inertia; Sylvester's triangle problem; Sylver coinage; Sylvester's criterion; Sylvester domain;
Awards	Royal Medal (1861); Copley Medal (1880); De Morgan Medal (1887)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University; University College London; University of Virginia; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; University of Oxford
Academic advisors	John Hymers; Augustus De Morgan
Doctoral students	William Durfee; George B. Halsted; Washington Irving Stringham
Other notable students	Isaac Todhunter; William Roberts McDaniel; Harry Fielding Reid; Christine Ladd-Franklin

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