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Arthur Cayley

1821 - 1895

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Arthur Cayley (; 16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895) was a British mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics, and was a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge for 35 years. He postulated what is now known as the Cayley–Hamilton theorem—that every square matrix is a root of its own characteristic polynomial, and verified it for matrices of order 2 and 3. He was the first to define the concept of an abstract group, a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws, as opposed to Évariste Galois' concept of permutation groups. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Cayley is the 207th most popular mathematician (down from 156th in 2019), the 1,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 744th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Mathematician.

Arthur Cayley is most famous for his contributions to the theory of matrices.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Arthur Cayley ranks 207 out of 1,004. Before him are Ernst Schröder, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Conon of Samos, Victor D'Hondt, André Weil, and Ibn Sahl. After him are Maria Reiche, Henry Briggs, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Paul Guldin, Robert Grosseteste, and Piet Hein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Arthur Cayley ranks 21. Before him are Richard Francis Burton, Anita Garibaldi, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolay Nekrasov, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, and Heinrich Barth. After him are Bartolomé Mitre, Andrew Kim Taegon, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Eduard Heine, Giovanni Bottesini, and Sebastian Kneipp. Among people deceased in 1895, Arthur Cayley ranks 21. Before him are John Russell Hind, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Charles Frederick Worth, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolai Leskov, and Friedrich Miescher. After him are Frederick Douglass, James Dwight Dana, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Carl Ludwig, Lord Randolph Churchill, and Francesco Filippini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Cayley ranks 1,061 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Balliol (1249), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), James Lovelock (1919), Tim Roth (1961), and Alexander III of Scotland (1241). After him are Thomas Tallis (1502), Robert III of Scotland (1330), Edward Kelley (1555), Ed Miliband (1969), Henry Briggs (1561), and Anthony Head (1954).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Cayley ranks 24. Before him are Oliver Heaviside (1850), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), John Pell (1611), G. I. Taylor (1886), James Gregory (1638), and Lewis Fry Richardson (1881). After him are Henry Briggs (1561), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Peter Tait (1831), Michael Atiyah (1929), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), and Lady Byron (1792).

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