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James Joseph Sylvester made foundational contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory and combinatorics, and coined much of the vocabulary — including the word "matrix" itself — that the field still uses. He spent his later career building American mathematics as a professor at Johns Hopkins and founding the American Journal of Mathematics, before finishing his career as a professor at Oxford.