Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Biography | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Cayley, Arthur Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age. Tony Crilly. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. 784 pp. $69.95.

"Cayley's seminal investigations of matrix algebra, which constituted only a tiny portion of the 967 papers, were crucial for the development of linear algebra. ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...Bruyere, essayist and moralist, 1645; Catharine Cockburn, playwright and philosopher, 1679; Sir Thomas Picton, general, 1758; Arthur Cayley, mathematician, 1821; Jules Laforgue, poet and critic, 1860; Dame Mary Gilmore, poet, 1865; Georgette Heyer, novelist, 1902...
Is it true that you only need four colours to draw a map?(Quizzical)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Geographical ; ...was true. The problem was first set out in 1850 by Francis Guthrie of the University of London. It wasn't long before Sir Arthur Cayley realised that it would be much harder to prove than anyone thought, outlining the reasons why in a paper that he sent to...
Mirror games; Mathematics.(Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ; ...analogous to twisting and flipping. But studying such symmetries required a whole new language. A crucial step here was made by Arthur Cayley, a Victorian mathematician who showed that the symmetries of any object could be described by a mathematical structure known...
STRANGE HISTORY OF A CARTOGRAPHIC PROBLEM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; ...mathematicians worldwide for more than a decade, actually took giant steps in the right direction. Cambridge mathematician Arthur Cayley stated that any map needing more than four colors led to a contradiction: If you pretend some maps need more than four colors...
Proof and truth in mathematics.(Forum on Science & Technology)
Newspaper article from: Phi Kappa Phi Forum ; ...colors seemed to suffice to make a map in which no region of any color abuts another of the same color. The mathematician Arthur Cayley published this as a conjecture in 1879, and in that same year Alfred Kempe published a proof that remained in force until...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the ..."