This page will be devoted to the works and life of
	James Joseph Sylvester 1814-1897, and is under construction

	Commemorative memorial service at the Balls Pond Road Reformed
	Jewish Cemetery 11 am, 14 March, 1997 London, England. 

	"The Memory of a righteous person is a blessing to us all."
	
	Present and reading at the ceremony:
		Prof. Peter Goddard, FRS, Master
		Prof. Ioan James, Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford
		Prof. Karen Parshall, University of Virginia, and	
			biographer of James Joseph Sylvester.
		Mr.   Hugh Stewart, FIA  Institute of Actuaries.
		Prof. Wilfrid Hodges, Vice President London Mathematical
			Society
		Prof. Alan Ryan, Warden New College Oxford
		Prof  Bill Richardson. President Mathematical Association
		Prof. William Sylvester, University at Buffalo
		Prof. Alain Enthoven, Stanford University, formerly 
			Assistant Secretary of Defense, US.
		Dr.   J.V. Field, President of The British Society for the 
			History of Mathematics.
		Prof. John Fauvel, Open University

		Prayers and the Kaddish were led by Rabbi Jacqueline
		Tabick of the West London Synagogue, 33 Seymour Street, which
		J.J.Sylvester attended.

That afternoon, starting at 3 pm, there was a programme at the University
College London

		Sir Derek Robert, Provost at UCL and J.V. Field President
			BSHM  offered words of welcome to the audience.
		SYLVESTER THE LONDONER Adrian Rice (Middlesex University)
		THE JEWISH EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND
			JOHN D. KLIER (UCL)
		SYLVESTER'S APPLIED MATHEMATICS Ivor Grattan-Guinness 
			(Middlesex University)
		SYLVESTER'S PURE MATHEMATICS Karen Hunger Parshall
			(University of Virginia)

The above were, as indicated on Friday  March 14.  
Sylvester actually died on the next day March 15, and the exact centenary
was then on Saturday, March 15, 1997 at Oxford, with the following talks
beginning at 10am.

Ioan James     (University of Oxford) James Joseph Sylvester
Hugh Stewart   (Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries) Sylvester the
			Actuary.
Adrian Rice     (Middlesex Unversity) Sylvester's Social Circle.
John Fauvel     (Open University. Sylvester at Oxford
Karen Parshall  (University of Virginia) Mathematicians and the Broader
			Culture: the case of J.J. Sylvester.