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As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
James Joseph Sylvester
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James Joseph Sylvester
Age: 82 †
Born: 1814
Born: September 3
Died: 1897
Died: March 15
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