Talk:List of things named after James Joseph Sylvester

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Anthroponymy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the study of people's names on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AnthroponymyWikipedia:WikiProject AnthroponymyTemplate:WikiProject AnthroponymyAnthroponymy articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Mathematics Low‑priority

	Mathematics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mathematics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of mathematics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MathematicsWikipedia:WikiProject MathematicsTemplate:WikiProject Mathematicsmathematics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-priority on the project's priority scale.

Untitled

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

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]