Talk:List of things named after 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]

^ 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

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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)Reply