Talk:List of things named after James Joseph Sylvester
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Jfgrcar in topic List of things named *by* James Joseph Sylvester
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- Sylvester’s eliminant — possibly the same as the Sylvester matrix of two polynomials?
- Sylvester resultant matrix
- Sylvester's law of nullity
- Sylvester's theorem on partitions
- Sylvester theorem on spherical harmonics proving the unicity of Maxwell’s multipole representation[1]
- Sylvester's formula for partitions of an integer.
- Sylvester's rule for converting partitions
- Sylvester's theorem on partitions II stating that the number of partitions of n into odd parts equals the number of partitions into distinct parts.
- Sylvester's theorem on partitions III The number of partitions of n into consecutive integers equals the number of odd factors of n
- Sylvester's graph or Sylvester-Ferrer graph of a partition.
- Sylvester's theory of waves
I give up...[2]
References edit
- ^ Sylvester J J 1876 Note on spherical harmonics Phil. Mag. 2 291–307, reprinted in The Collected mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester vol III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 1909
- ^ History of the theory of numbers
List of things named *by* James Joseph Sylvester edit
Guys, it would also be useful to have a list of mathematical things for which Sylvester coined the name. Start with "matrix". Jfgrcar (talk) 12:34, 30 October 2014 (UTC)