Sylvester Medal
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title:
Sylvester Medal
text:
The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize. It was named in honour of James Joseph Sylvester, the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford in the 1880s, and first awarded in 1901, having been suggested by a group of Sylvester's friends after his death in 1897. Initially awarded every three years with a prize of around £900, the Royal Society have announced that starting in
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Bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society (London)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Medal
date created:
2005-04-08T12:58:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T13:12:00Z
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