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Arthur Cayley
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Arthur Cayley (1821–1895) was a mathematician whose writings include *An elementary treatise on elliptic functions*, *A treatise on the higher plane curves*, and *The principles of book-keeping by double entry*. His collected mathematical papers, specifically Volume 3, are also part of his literary output. Open Library records indicate he authored 26 works, while Crossref lists five.
Cayley is recognized in the collections of the Royal Society and the American Academy Arts Sciences. His academic influence is reflected in an Erdős number of 3, and he has been referenced by 345 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1821
- Died
- 1895
- Works
- 26
Top works
- An elementary treatise on elliptic functions
- Traité de géométrie analytique (courbes planes)
- The collected mathematical papers of Arthur Cayley.Vol. 3
- The principles of book-keeping by double entry
- A treatise on the higher plane curves
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
· 2009 · cited 33,802x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,189x
- The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 15,168x
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,427x
- The Molecular Signatures Database Hallmark Gene Set Collection
· 2015 · cited 13,163x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Richmond
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- barrister
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Lincoln's Inn
- Employer
- Lincoln's Inn
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Smith's Prize
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Science
- Doctoral advisor
- William Hopkins
- Doctoral student
- Charlotte Scott
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Arthur Cayley.jpg
- Residence
- Saint Petersburg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Arthur Cayley
- date of birth
- 1821-08-16
- date of death
- 1895-01-26
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons gallery
- Arthur Cayley
- name in native language
- Arthur Cayley
- Erdős number
- 3
- writing language
- English language
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Red-bellied squirrel
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Encyclopedic overview
Arthur Cayley (/ˈkeɪli/; 16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895) was an English 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. In group theory, Cayley tables, Cayley graphs, and Cayley's theorem are named in his honour, as well as Cayley's formula in combinatorics.
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