Abstract
THE greater part of this volume consists of papers on the theory of algebraic forms, and their substance is now so familiar that it is needless to analyse them. But the reader who turns back to these classical memoirs is charmed, as ever, by the genius they display, and the extraordinary vivacity with which they are written. Moreover, Sylvester's habit of publishing in haste, while the hot fit was on him, makes all his papers stimulating in a way which encourages research. His scattered hints and surmises, his digressions and scholia, his occasional fantastic notes, all add to the fascination of his work. Thus, to take an example quite at random, he concludes a paper on irreducible concomitants by remarking:—
The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, F.R.S., &c.
Vol. iii. (1870–83). Pp. xvi + 688. (Cambridge: University Press, 1909.) Price 18s. net.
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M., G. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, FRS, &c . Nature 85, 434–435 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085434b0
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