Talk:James Joseph Sylvester

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 02:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

"came to the United States" is a sentence that disrupts the neutrality required in an encyclopedia. I have substituted it by "moved to the United States"

The page on the totient function says it was invented by Euler. Unless I hear otherwise I will remove the relevant phrase from this article.Ignoramibus

I checked few other sources like MathWorld, etc. and it is definitely true that Euler invented the function itself. On the other hand, Sylvester might have named it. I will make a small editorial change to clarify this. Mhym 02:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)