James Joseph Sylvester Quotes

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, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

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James Joseph Sylvester
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Mathematician
BirthDate
03 September, 1814
DeathDate
15 March, 1897
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