Professor Sylvester's first high class at the new university Johns Hopkins consisted of only one student, G. B. Halsted, who had persisted in urging Sylvester to lecture on the modern algebra. The attempt to lecture on this subject led him into new investigations in quantics.
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Florian Cajori, in Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States (Washington, 1890), page 264.James Joseph Sylvester
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