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Arthur Cayley
(16 Aug 1821 - 26 Jan 1895)
English mathematician who developed algebraic matrices and founded the theory of algebraic invariance. He also contributed to multidimensional geometry; theoretical dynamics; and spherical and physical astronomy.
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Science Quotes by Arthur Cayley (1)
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
'Geometry', Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th edition. In George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane (1982), 130.
