About Cayley
Where was Arthur Cayley born?
Richmond, England
Where did he go to school first?
Blackheath
What school did Cayley help found?
British School of Pure Mathematics
How many siblings did Cayley have?
5 siblings
What was the normal age to get into the King College?
16 years old
What was he first to define?
A group in the modern way
Which sibling died as and infant?
His oldest brother
How old was Cayley when he got into King College?
14 years old
What did he postulate?
Cayley-Hamilton theorem
Was Arthur the oldest, middle, or youngest child?
He was the middle child.
What college did Cayley go to in 1838?
Trinity College, Cambridge
What order of matrices did he verify for the Cayley-Hamilton theorem?
orders of 2 and 3
In what year did Cayley die?
1895
What was Cayley's favorite math topic?
linear transformation
What was the Cayley-Hamilton theorem over?
That every square matrix is a root of its own characteristic polynomial