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Cayley   (English)

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Arthur Cayley (1821-1895): English mathematician. He published prolifically on every branch of mathematics; some of his most important work was on matrices, non-euclidean geometry and higher-dimensional geometry, permutations and abstract groups.
The Cayley-Hamilton theorem, and Cayley's sextic, bear his name.

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