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Parshall, Karen Hunger. Telling the Life of a Mathematician: The Case of J.J. Sylvester. Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, Tome 5 (1999) no. 2, pp. 285-302. http://archive.numdam.org/item/RHM_1999__5_2_285_0/
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