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Richard L. Taylor, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, has been appointed to a position in the Mathematics Department...
...recent professor in an American college is thus honored by the London Spectator. "Professor Sylvester is selected to succeed the late Professor Henry Smith as Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. Prof. Sylvester is-with perhaps some question as to Professor Cayley-the most brilliant and original mathematician of his time. Nor has the fertility of his genius, it is said, diminished with age, though he is believed to be already seventy. He leaves the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, where his genius has been greatly valued and born large fruit, at Christmas, and will, we suppose, assume...
Professor Sylvester, late of Johns Hopkins, expects to enter upon his duties as Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford early in this year...
Prof. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was formally elected Savilian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, England, on Wednesday last. It has been understood for some time that he would accept...
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