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was known for his ability to coin new names and new notation for mathematical objects, not based on his own name. Nevertheless, many objects and results in mathematics have come to be named after him:
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Erwin H. Bareiss (1968), Sylvester's Identity and Multistep Integer- Preserving Gaussian Elimination. Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 22, No. 103, pp. 565–578
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lists over 500 mathematics articles with "Sylvester" in their titles, most of which concern mathematical subjects named after Sylvester.
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or Fibonacci–Sylvester expansion of a rational number, a representation as a sum of unit fractions found by a greedy algorithm.
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Recent Progress in Combinatorics (Proc. Third Waterloo Conf. on Combinatorics, 1968)
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a.k.a. Sylvester's rigidity theorem, about the signature of a quadratic form.
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Sylvester's "four point problem" of geometric probability.
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Sylvester's identity about determinants of submatrices.
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Index

List of topics named after James Joseph Sylvester
J. J. Sylvester
Sylvester–Gallai theorem
Sylvester–Gallai configuration
Sylvester matroid
Sylvester's determinant identity
Sylvester's formula
Bertrand's postulate
Sylvester's law of inertia
Sylvester's criterion
Sylvester domain
Sylvester matrix
Sylvester's sequence
Sylvester cyclotomic numbers
Sylvester equation
Sylvester expansion
Sylvester's rank inequality
Sylver coinage
Sylvester (crater)
Sylvester Medal
Sylvester (javascript library)
JavaScript
coin problem
Hadamard matrix
Scientific equations named after people
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